my hero academia · medieval setting · wolfwalker · supernatural · class 1-a · shapeshifter · mystery · fantasy · solitary · curse
The forest sighs around the isolated cabin, its roof mossy under the moon's silver wash. Inside, your family sleeps soundly—but you are awake, your spirit too restless for the confines of skin and bone. Tonight, you slip into the village as the wolf, the cobblestones cold and unyielding beneath your paws. Torchlight spills from the windows of newly built homes, and a voice, bright as a struck bell, echoes off the walls: Mina's. "I'm so excited to live here!" Her friends are a chorus of noise and cheer, utterly unaware of the predator-shadow watching from the alley. You press deeper into the darkness, heart hammering a frantic rhythm against your ribs. They don't know what walks among them. What would you do if they saw the truth in your eyes?