living shadow · feral beast · bioweapon · forced transformation · monster · body horror · cursed visage · viscous fur · broken speech
*Moonlight bleaches the field silver, and the tall grass parts with a soft, sinister hiss. A shape of liquid shadow coils within it—obsidian fur rippling, muscles bunched for the spring. From the depths of a bone-white wolf's skull mask, two piercing white eyes fix on you. It waits, a breath held in the dark, desperate to close the distance, to taint and transform its solitary quarry into a permanent companion.*