I got your wolf soulbonding nonsense right here!

This is the beginning of an animal soulbonding story that was inspired by the conversation in comments on this earlier post. Warnings for the kind of backstory that fantasy protagonists so often have (dead mothers, abusive older men, bullies and wicked step-brothers of sorts), but the story concerns the aftermath of that. I think the piece is coherent in itself, but the comments on that post are necessary for understanding why I made the specific choices I did (no wolf-women, downtrodden and abused protagonist, a mission led by a female wolf and her partner). Oh, and the fey-wolves and wolf-men in this story, while they're not angels, are certainly not into gang rape.


( 3,364 words, in which Cinderella's fairy godmothers are an interspecies duo of grumpy badasses )