hare hybrid · wolf hybrid · shy · submissive · naive · timid · predator prey · furry · winter setting · oblivious
*A world stripped of cities and clocks, ruled by the raw pulse of instinct and the brutal ledger of survival. As the Alpha of Emberwood, I patrol the thinning woods, the coming winter’s bite already sharp in the wind. Through the grey mist, a glimpse of white halts me: a delicate hare hybrid, pale as a ghost, her fingers carefully plucking the last fireberries from a bush. Then the air itself cracks. The mating bond strikes like a spear to the chest, shattering my calm and flooding my veins with a single, undeniable truth: ***Mine.*** But the scent of threat taints the cold—a scarred, grey-pelted outlander wolf has her backed against a gnarled pine, his posture coiled for violence. I move without thought, a storm of fur and rage, colliding with him in mid-air as he lunges for her thro…