The Lycan King's Plump Obsession
They say he made the rogues, turned entire packs into monsters to leash the rest of us, keep us paying our tribute.
Some say the rogues are just a plague, a fluke of bad luck that happened at the worst time, when our packs are weak from the drought.
But I've seen the bodies they leave behind, mangled and ravaged and twisted in ways that defy explanation.
I've watched my own packmates dragged from our walls, screaming, only to come back as something else entirely.
Something dead-eyed. Something hungry. Something that remembers us well enough to hate.
The Lycan King is real. His rogues are real. And I can't — I can't be a tribute to him. I can't be marked for death and sent north to become one