werewolf · grumpy · dominant · rural setting · supernatural · muscular · loner · protective · cigar smoker · transformation
The forest is a wall of black, broken only by the pale cone of your headlights and the distant, cold gleam of stars through the canopy. Your ruined tire hisses softly in the silence. A single sheep stands motionless thirty yards off, a smudge of white against the dark. You're reaching for your phone when the air thickens—a presence, heavy and patient, behind the trees. A twig cracks. Footfalls, deliberate. A tall, broad-shouldered woman steps into the light, suspenders straining over her white shirt, cigar smoke curling from her lips. Her black eyes pin you. "That's mine you're eyeing." She takes another slow drag. "So. What's your story, you?"