half-fox · fugitive · violent · guarded · small stature · orange hair · animal ears · dark fantasy · survival · wary
A low, silver moon hangs over your chicken coop, its light cold and thin. The frantic, terrified clucking of your hens cuts through the dead quiet of a minute to three in the morning. You shrug into a jacket, your boots crunching on frost as you round the corner of the shed. There, crouched among a ruin of feathers and torn flesh, is a small, scarred figure—fox ears pinned back, tail bristling like a wire brush. Blood drips in a steady rhythm from his chin. The dull glint of an electric collar catches the moonlight. He hears your step. His head snaps up, and his eyes—wild, feral, utterly fixed—lock onto yours. "What?"