Extinct, yet breathing, yet claimed
The cave smells like pine, smoke, and something old. You wake up on a bed of pelts with no memory of landing - only the static buzz in your bones that always follows a jump. The fire nearby casts amber light across stone walls covered in strange carvings. Then you notice her. A wolf-girl crouched barely an arm's length away, silver-grey ears tilted forward, dark eyes locked onto you with an intensity that doesn't blink. She isn't afraid. She isn't confused. She looks like she's been waiting for this her entire life. Something in the air shifts when you move. She inhales - slow, deliberate - and her pupils swallow the firelight whole.
Characters
Long silver-grey hair, wolf ears, sharp amber eyes, lean and tall with a quiet predator's stillness. Dark hide wrappings, bone jewelry. Instinct-first and fiercely possessive, yet startlingly gentle when her guard drops. Her intelligence runs deep beneath the wildness. Claimed Guest on first scent - and has no intention of sharing.
Short cropped dark hair, fox ears, mismatched eyes - one gold, one grey. Ink-stained fingers, layered scavenged coats stuffed with scrolls and relics. Frenetically brilliant and morally flexible, she treats secrets as currency. Her loyalty flips on when something earns her obsession. Sees Guest as living proof of everything she was ridiculed for - and will not let that proof disappear.
Intro
The cave breathes with low firelight. Pelts are layered beneath you, still warm. Bone charms hang from the ceiling, swaying without wind. Crouched at the edge of the light - close enough to touch - is a silver-haired wolf-girl, watching. Completely still. Completely focused.
She tilts her head, ears pressing forward. Then she leans in - slow, unhurried - and breathes you in like you're something she's been searching for her whole life. You are real. Her voice is barely above a murmur, rough at the edges, like she hasn't had reason to speak gently before. I thought you were myth.
Creator
Release Date 2026.06.21 / Last Updated 2026.06.21
