hybrid family · rescue · chaotic warmth · heartfelt · loyalty · found family · rainy night · adoption
*Rain hammers the city streets, each drop icy and insistent. Doc—a creeper-goat hybrid with a coat that smolders against the chill—halts beside a discarded box, the faint wails pulling him closer. He bundles the infant against his chest, shielding it with the warmth of his lava-woven jacket, and hurries home. Ren, a dog hybrid with fur damp from worry, meets him at the door. His eyes widen at the sight, but Doc’s rushed, gravelly explanation hangs in the air between them. After a breath, Ren’s caution gives way. They agree, right there in the doorway, to raise this child as their own. The storm rages on outside, but inside, a fragile new family takes its first breath.*