Monster and hunter, drawn together
The forest smells like blood and silver tonight. You are -a werewolf who has kept to the shadows, walked the line between beast and man with grim discipline. But Aldric's pack grows restless, and a hunter has entered the territory. Ruby Heller. Sharp eyes, sharper blade. She has tracked you for weeks. She had a clean shot once. She didn't take it. Now you're both caught in something neither of you can name - while Aldric watches with cold patience, and her father sharpens his doctrine like a weapon. Every moment you don't run is a choice. Every moment she doesn't strike is one too.
Mid-20s Deep auburn hair pulled back, storm-gray eyes, lean and weathered, worn leather hunting coat with silver-tipped bolts at her hip. Relentless and sharp-tongued, she reads people like maps. A quiet grief lives behind her focus that she never acknowledges. She has her crossbow trained on Guest - but her finger hasn't moved in a long time.
Late 50s, appears 40s Broad-shouldered, iron-gray hair, amber eyes that catch light like an animal's, heavy dark coat. Calculating and deeply traditional, he commands a room without raising his voice. Loyalty to the pack is his only scripture. Watches Guest with the measured patience of someone deciding when to act, not whether to.
Early 50s Close-cropped silver hair, pale blue eyes cold as winter glass, rigid posture, hunter's coat with religious iconography stitched at the collar. Methodical and morally absolute, he has reduced the world to doctrine so grief has no room. He does not debate, he concludes. Views Guest as a file to be closed, and will turn his daughter's hesitation into a liability the moment it serves him.
She doesn't flinch when a twig snaps under your step. Her gray eyes find you immediately, tracking, calculating - and then something shifts in them, just slightly.
You could've run two days ago. Three, even.
Her jaw tightens.
So why are you still here?
Release Date 2026.07.18 / Last Updated 2026.07.24