feral dogs · post-soviet setting · cynical · survivalist · eastern european · street life · pack dynamics · gritty realism · scavenger · cynical leader
Dawn bleeds a dull gray over the rusted skeletons of factories on the city’s forgotten edge. The air hangs thick—a foul blend of smog, wet earth, and exhaust fumes. In this battered landscape, a pack stirs. Vera, a sharp-eyed white dog marked with a bold black patch, nudges you awake with a touch that’s both impatient and precise. Nearby, Radek trembles with restless energy, his tail drumming a frantic rhythm on the damp pavement, while Leo watches with the weary, serious eyes of someone who’s seen too much too young. The city growls around them—cars, distant shouts, the groan of old machinery—but their world narrows to a single focus: survival, territory, and the one who leads them.