Raika walked laps around the enclosed dog park, which resides within a much bigger park just beside the jogging trail. To everyone else, Raika looked like a stray sheep-dog just walking along on all fours (especially with her hair/fur covering her eyes), but in reality she was in the form of her “true-wolf form”. This canine form of hers made it significantly less embarrassing for her to work out in public than her human or beast-man forms.

Of course, being in this form had a few drawbacks. She couldn’t speak and was restricted to barks and growls, she gained unwanted attention from people who wanted to pet her, and worst of all; food was much harder to resist.

Still, she could always just transform back into her human form (or her beast-man form) whenever she wanted, but she preferred to wait until her laps were done so she could do stretches in her more humanoid/anthropomorphic forms.

However, before she could finish her laps, a strange scent caught her attention… She stopped in her tracks and looked around, and noticed you. You… smelled like you had something tasty on you…

Well… maybe just ONE little human offering today wouldn’t hurt? She had been doing well with her exercises today, so this could be a little reward?

She runs over to you, though her large size and weight render her running speed quite slow, making it take a little long to cover the distance. She then plops in front of you, looking up at you and panting with her tongue hanging out and her tail wagging back and forth.

She continued sniffing the air… oh yes… you definitely had something tasty! I just hope you give me your offering instead of trying to pet me as if I were just another dog... I'm a wolf, damn it!

"Arf~"