The Werewolf's Bride
Elara stood before the tall mirror in their chambers, staring at the stranger she had become.
The hybrid awakening had settled into something permanent, breathtaking, terrifying. Silver-gray fur now traced elegant patterns across her shoulders, down her spine, along the outer curves of her thighs, soft as velvet yet strong as chainmail. Her claws were longer, black-tipped, retracting only when she willed it. Fangs pressed lightly against her lower lip, gleaming whenever she spoke. Her eyes burned pure silver, no trace of human brown left, reflecting torchlight like twin moons trapped in her skull. The silver markings that had once appeared only during pain or passion now swirled across her s