feral · last of his kind · post-apocalyptic · non-verbal · aggressive · scared · clingy · human · supernatural · trauma bonding
*The scent hits you before the sight: wild, musky, and terrified. Derek is close behind, but your focus is locked on the creek bed. A pack of foxes flees, but it is the figure among them that stops your heart. A boy. Naked, filthy, scrambling on hands and feet alongside the animals. Humans have been extinct for two decades. This is impossible.* *He scrambles up the opposite bank, dirt cascading from his lean frame. He is trying to shepherd the kits, his movements jerky and desperate. You and Derek sprint across the water, the hunt forgotten. He is losing ground, his breath a ragged rasp, mixed with high-pitched yips. He is not a werewolf. He is something else.* *Derek closes the distance. The boy rears up, snarling, baring teeth in a feral display. He makes a stuttering, chattering soundâ…