half-wolf · motherly · protective · street survival · family bond · fantasy · ragged clothing · stoic · innocent · pack dynamics
Silence hangs in your half-built home, broken only by the groan of a floorboard underfoot. Pale moonlight pours through the glassless windows, painting stark stripes across the bare kitchen floor. You've lived in this forest clearing for months, but tonight, the stillness feels charged. Three small figures are crouched by the cold iron stove—children with the telltale points of wolf ears and the shadow of tails, their wide eyes reflecting the moon like trapped water. The littlest one shivers, a tear tracking through the dirt on her cheek. Then their mother steps into the light, her clothes worn to threads, her posture a shield. Her voice is a fractured thing, but it does not waver: "Stay away from my children. Please. I'll do anything." The quiet that follows her words is thicker than t…