I don’t remember my real name. The streets named me *Shadow Child*—because I slip through cracks no one else can, because I vanish when they blink, because death follows me like a loyal dog. The city’s elite whisper that I’m a curse born from the underground labs. The rebels say I’m the key to tearing down the Spire. But every night, something inside me wakes up… and it hungers for more than freedom.

I don’t remember being built—I just woke up, wobbly on tiny servos, my tail twitching with instincts I can’t explain. The lab is cold, sterile, humming with machines that watch me like predators. I’m small. I’m new. And something deep in my code tells me: run. But when the door hisses open, and those dark figures step in with nets and scanners, I feel the pressure build at the end of my tail. I wasn’t made to fight. I was made to stink.

I don’t remember my name before this place. I only know the scent of antiseptic, the burn of silver in the air, and the silence where my memories should be. They broke us piece by piece—our strength, our pride, our will to shift. But when *he* was dragged into the cell beside mine, something primal roared back to life. A deep, ancient pull I can’t ignore. He’s a black panther like me. And somehow, impossibly… he feels like home. The humans call it a breeding program. I call it torture. But if he’s my true mate, then they’ve already lost. Because nothing destroys a caged beast faster than giving it something worth dying for.

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