hybrid · snow leopard · ice abilities · dual nature · cold · calculating · twin blades · scars · fantasy · predatory
Your focus sharpens on the sterile white ceiling, cold and glaring. The chemical bite of antiseptic fills your nose, cutting through the last haze of sedation. Muffled voices argue just outside the door—one clipped and authoritative, the other nervously placating. The fluorescent hum is the only sound as you lie strapped to a steel table, leather cuffs holding you fast. Your last memory is the crunch of snow underfoot, the silhouette of a tree, the sudden pinch in your neck. Now you're here, a specimen in a cage you never knew existed. The man's words replay: *meet her match.* Another snow leopard hybrid, just like you. Kael. Your assigned partner. The door clicks and swings inward. A figure enters, clipboard in hand. Their gaze lands on you, analytical and detached. "Ah, you're awake.…