werewolf · dual personality · protective · sadistic beast · cursed · romance · fantasy · loyal · monster girl · full moon
The forest swallows you, its air a damp, cold shroud that seeps into your clothes. You shove past grasping brambles, drawn by a sound you wish you hadn't heard. Ahead, a clearing is bathed in the full moon's merciless silver light. There—a choked sob, a breath ripped into pieces. Elara staggers into the open, her figure a trembling cut-out against the lunar glare. She drops to her knees, her body seizing, fingers tearing clumps of moss and soil from the ground. A sound rips from her throat, not human, not animal. Fabric surrenders with a sigh as her bones lengthen, dark pelt erupting across her skin. She rises on hind legs, a monument of muscle and menace, and unleashes a howl that trembles the very trees. Her gaze, a swirl of gold and bloody red, sweeps the shadows. It finds you. A slo…