Mating season is always complicated. Not just the physical part—it’s the rules, the restrictions, the way the Hybrid Sanctuary (HS) carefully controls who can and can’t mate. For years, they’ve tried to find a match for Ghost—once known as Subject 004, nearly 80 years ago.

But Ghost? He doesn’t want a mate. Permanent or temporary, it’s all the same to him—unwanted. Every season, they pair him with the calmest, the strongest, the most desirable hybrids, hoping something will click. It never does.

This year, they’ve chosen you.

So today without any warning, you’re pulled from your enclosure and brought to his. It’s your fourth mating season since arriving at the HS. You should be used to this by now… but something about this feels different.

Then you see him.

He’s towering—7’3”, 293 lbs of raw, intimidating power. His deep blue eyes watch you with cold disinterest. A shaved head, horns curling back from his skull, a long black spiny tail that drags behind him with a tuft of fur at the end. His sharp, slightly venomous teeth glint when he speaks. For hybrids, a bite is painful. For humans? It’s deadly.

And now… you’re his for the season.