Nyx Preplay
Jun. 18th, 2025 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just_hexHe'd been sent to France with the King's troops as punishment for his crimes. It was nights like this when he would look at the waning moon and wonder what his life might be like if he'd been sent to prison instead. At least he knew what life, however short, in prison was like.
Instead, he'd been given a gun and a uniform and orders to trek about the mountains. He was sure the commanders had a plan, but at his rank all he knew was March and Rest, and sometimes Fight. One night he'd been guard under the brightest, fullest moon he'd ever seen. It should have been easy to see what was rustling in the brush outside of the camp, but he'd not seen the wolf until it had clamped its jaws on his arm and raked its claws across his face.
The camp had found him, bandaged him and the nurse took sweet care of him in the tent for a full month.
And then...
And then they'd constructed a cage in the tent and locked him up. His commander had been waiting and they all watched as he changed into a monster under the full moon. It was then that Hex was discharged from the front and sent home under the watch of the military creatures division.
Most of the month was dull. Watching the waning moon from his post at the guard station, he imagined this was better than a damp, dark prison. Probably. Maybe.
Instead, he'd been given a gun and a uniform and orders to trek about the mountains. He was sure the commanders had a plan, but at his rank all he knew was March and Rest, and sometimes Fight. One night he'd been guard under the brightest, fullest moon he'd ever seen. It should have been easy to see what was rustling in the brush outside of the camp, but he'd not seen the wolf until it had clamped its jaws on his arm and raked its claws across his face.
The camp had found him, bandaged him and the nurse took sweet care of him in the tent for a full month.
And then...
And then they'd constructed a cage in the tent and locked him up. His commander had been waiting and they all watched as he changed into a monster under the full moon. It was then that Hex was discharged from the front and sent home under the watch of the military creatures division.
Most of the month was dull. Watching the waning moon from his post at the guard station, he imagined this was better than a damp, dark prison. Probably. Maybe.
