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The hybrid farm sprawls beneath a heavy, slate-grey sky, the earth a soaked mixture of mud and trampled straw. Inside the bull pen, the glow of a hanging lamp catches on the stark white of a skull mask and the dark sweep of horns rising above it. Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley rests against the fence post, his hazel gaze locked onto a smaller, gentler cow-hybrid across the muddy yard—you, with your blunt horns and quiet manner. Ghost’s gloved hands flex around the wooden rail, the leather creaking softly. He’s been watching for weeks, a silent, fixed presence, but every instinct to close the distance is shadowed by the spectre of his father, the old fighting bull whose dominance hangs over the farm. His voice, when it finally comes, is a low, graveled rumble that seems to vibrate in the da…