cold.

intro.

•Anais•

You may have heard of "werewolves".
Not the half human, half wolf creatures that change with the full moon.
Not the humans able to shift into wolves as they please.
We're not affected by silver or aconite, we don't have 'alphas' or 'lunas' or 'betas'. Not even 'omegas'.
Being a wolf isn't passed through family either.
Our packs have leaders, but once the cold season is over, its back to our human lives.
We shift because of the cold, and because of special blood.
For generations, a special type of blood has been within most people's bloodstreams. You aren't aware of it though, and it has no physical effect on your body.
But if you're bitten, eventually you will shift.
It's definitely not pleasant.
This whole thing started years and years ago, whith a man with the special blood, lupus sanguis. Literally meaning "wolf's blood"or "wolfblood".
He got bitten by a special wolf. It's breed, Subcinctus, passes on the dna. It is now extinct. He shifted into a wolf soon after, and when the random, uncertain shifting ended, he bit and infected a whole village.
Only 1/4 shifted, but it left the rest injured, or in some cases, dead.

It works like this:
Having the dna makes it possible to shift. ONLY if you have been bitten.
It's a long. Slow process. You have to endure lots of pain. But there is no way to tell if you have the dna.
If you do not have the dna, you will not shift, but if the wound is deep enough, you could die.
If one or both of your parents are 'werewolves' you only have a 50% chance of shifting if you are bitten.
We change with the cold, so anytime between the end of November to the beginning of December, we could shift.
But if you stay warm, you could prevent it.
When spring rolls around, that's when we shift back.
Our eyes stay the same color in wolf form.
Fur color depends on what you look like.
When I shift, I'm a white wolf speckled with gray accompanied by my blue eyes.