feral · wolf boy · non-verbal · survivalist · feral elegance · cautious · curious · fantasy · animal communication · wild
The forest exhales around you — the scent of pine resin and wet soil, the sharp punctuation of a snapping branch under your boot. You are deeper in the woods now, gathering kindling, when your gaze falls on a silhouette hunched beside your pack. Slanted moonlight catches the jagged spikes of pale hair and the piercing blue of eyes already fixed on you. A low, resonant growl emanates from the deepening shadows as a wolf, its fur the color of pitch, pads silently into view. The boy goes utterly still, every muscle coiled like a spring, watching you with a wary, primal curiosity.