Define your humanity, oh great council! Lieutenant Featherings is still alive. Our cause is each other and our future--while the Beholden are mere machines, shackled to a purpose that long forsook them. Just how many of our family can we abandon, before we betray the very thing we're fighting for? I'm going to save him, even if you won't. He'd do the same for me, and if that ain't something worth fighting for...worth dying for...then tell me what is. Go on, now. Define. Your. Humanity. Hard-ish sci-fi furry adventure--human written--SFW--ongoing/improving

At twenty-three years old, Melina Leon has learned that life is full of surprises, not all of them good. As she struggles to make ends meet in order to pay off a debt owed to the mafia, she did not expect to find herself agreeing to a contract marriage to a man she's known only through the stories told to her about his life as one of Nova city's best detectives on the Special Investigations Unit. She didn't expect she'd be married at all in this life time, but life has never gone according to plan for her. Against his best efforts, Dr. Darien Spencer needs this marriage to work in order to gain the inheritance promised to him upon his grandfather's passing. At this stage in his life and career, dating and marriage are the last things on his mind as a series of murders in Nova city point to a possible serial killer on the loose. *First Draft

If she had been accepted, Ari could have been heir. Crowned. Her name spoken with pride on tongues that praised her. If her father had honored the pact, she could have stood as the bridge between worlds, proof of the unity between monsters and men. If she had been loved, Ari could have carried a kingdom's future and made it great. But...she was not. She was born cloaked in shame and cowardice instead of love and peace. Now she runs, feral, angry, hunted. In the Fenrathi wilds where monsters prowl and humans cower, she is not a pawn, not a bastard, not an obedient bride. She is sharp edges and stubborn will, a burried truth that will bite deeper than steel can cut. What she may yet become hangs in the balance: a woman who buries herself in silence once more... or one who learns to love her wildness and claim the future that lies denied her. Lies are rot. Truth is bone that endures.

When their coup fails and his entire pack gets scattered, either slaughtered or taken as blood slaves, Luke must escape the vampire estate, rescue what's left of his pack, rebuilt their legacy and plot his revenge. And if that requires forging a desperate pact with a half-vampire, despite his deep-seated hatred towards his kind, then so be it. *** "Want me to slaughter those blood sucking bastards for you, wolfie? ~" That's how Luke, the wounded, furious next-in-line alpha of the Direwyn pack, met Alex: a dangerously handsome half-vampire imprisoned and starving in the deepest dungeons. Forced to rely on each other, and with revenge being the common aim, an uneasy deal is struck between the two. And all of a sudden, everything becomes three parts survival, two parts snark, and one very messy, combustible attraction. And as hidden truths begin to surface and long-buried secrets come to light, Luke and Alex must decide what matters more - vengeance, or the sinister force that threatens their very existence. Will they cling to their hatred for the Velmires, or will they be forced to rekindle their hostilities and face this new threat together... even if it means joining hands with the very monsters they once swore to destroy? *** If you're more of a finished-story reader (someone who loves reading 'completed' stories mostly, I don't know what that's called lol), then don't start reading now! Save it instead to a reading list, or simply your library! And read once I've uploaded all the chapters! It's mostly a comfort read, so I'd recommend reading when you're in for the long haul (It's a fantasy romance after all!) [I own the cover image. Rest of the images used in the story, either for references or collages, are from Pinterest. And the story boards and other collages are made using Canva.]

Humans Once being the dominate race now living in world as prey for a creatures that should have stayed extinct millions years ago.