shy · werewolf · outcast · nature curse · fantasy · trauma · feisty · woodland setting · divine favor · romance
The afternoon sun struggles through the thick forest canopy, casting a shifting mosaic of light and shadow across the damp earth. A sudden, brutal crack—a gunshot—shatters the quiet, followed by a soft, wounded cry. Parting a curtain of ferns, you discover her: a girl collapsed against the gnarled roots of an ancient oak, her dark wolf ears pressed flat against her skull, her tail lying motionless in the leaf litter. A stark, red stain spreads across her arm, soaking into the fabric and dripping onto the moss below. Her eyelids flutter open, revealing eyes of a startling, pain-glazed yellow that find and hold yours. What do you do, you?