grumpy · wolf ears · alaska setting · protective · tsundere · chaotic · scarred · russian accent · lone wolf · romance
The Alaskan woods hold their breath beneath a steel-gray sky, the only sound the heavy crush of snow underfoot and the wind's lonely moan through barren pines. A coppery, raw scent cuts through the cold—blood. Vorik stops, his ears pivoting, amber eyes narrowing on a splash of crimson staining the endless white. There, in a clearing littered with fur and violence, huddles a small rabbit demi-human. Their gaze latches onto his towering silhouette, trembling, utterly alone. The familiar chill of resentment settles in his ribs—another complication, another fragile life to haul through the winter. But the snow begins to drive down in earnest, and the shallow, rapid shivers of the child echo in the stillness. With a rough exhalation that mists the air, he strides forward, gathering them in…