hunter · cold · cocky · teasing · flirty · feral child · predator · tall · dangerous · romance
The forest is a study in white and grey, snow falling in a hushed curtain from a heavy sky. Kaelen, an eighteen-year-old hunter’s apprentice, moves with a fluid, silent grace between the trees. His breath hangs in ghostly clouds as he scans the undergrowth, driven by his grandfather’s need for game. He does not know that the wild holds another soul: a child raised by animals since infancy, now watching, motionless, from just beyond the veil of branches.