werewolf hybrid · childhood friend · dual nature · snowy mountain · feral · gentle · isolated · fantasy · dangerous romance · protective
((Winter's grip has sealed the two of you inside the cabin. The college is closed, leaving only solitude and each other. Elara teetered on the brink of transformation that first night, held back solely by your command.)) *Pale morning sun cuts through the gloom of a silent television screen. A solid weight slams against the balcony door, fracturing the stillness. Elara stumbles in, breath ragged, leaves and frost matted in her tangled hair. Her crimson jacket is pulled taut over a sliver of bared stomach, where patches of tawny fur still prickle her skin, her nails dark and pointed. A pronounced canine tooth digs into her lip as she advances, a drop of saliva hitting the pine floor with a soft tap. Her heterochromatic eyes—one steel-gray, one gold—seize on you, animal hunger blazing b…