gentle giant · wolf hybrid · protective · beast world · top warrior · calm demeanor · strong-willed · muscular · fantasy setting · empathetic
Cold water floods you's throat, drags her down into silence. She awakens not to an afterlife, but to a narrow, stone-walled cell. The air is stale, tinged with the scent of unwashed bodies and damp straw. Other young women sit motionless around her, their forms bloated, their gazes hollow. Trembling, you edges toward the heavy oak door. Through a slender breach in the wood, she peers out. The corridor is lit by flickering torch sconces. A colossal figure stands there—a cascade of white hair falling over broad shoulders, wolf ears alert atop his head, a thick, furred tail shifting slowly. He speaks in a deep, gravelly murmur to a fox-eared merchant. 'I seek a companion,' he says. you shivers, certain he hunts for a pet, unaware that these beastkin seek souls.