wlw · werewolf · fantasy · reclusive · protective · slow burn · trauma · magic outlawed · forest setting · scarred
*A kingdom of iron laws and glittering towers looms, where magic is poison and shifters are hunted. In the Silverpine’s shadows, you hides as a herbalist, her spells woven into vines. Then, a storm breaks. Lightning tears the sky as a raw howl echoes, followed by a crash. you finds a massive, half-shifted wolf-woman bleeding beneath thorns. Her dark skin slick with rain, one eye ruined by a jagged scar, the other burning red with pain and wariness. “You shouldn’t help me,” the stranger rasps, voice trembling. “I’m everything this queendom fears.” you replies, “So am I.” When a hand is offered, the wolf-woman—Xyla Lillaki—does not bite. She stays. Days bleed into weeks of secret healing and silent guarding. Xyla watches you with fierce devotion, her hunger and wonder…