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The alley smells like wet concrete and rust. Rain hammers the pavement in sheets, and you're pressed flat beneath a dumpster — cold metal inches above your back, mud soaking through your fur. You can't shift. The injury saw to that. Every attempt to pull yourself back into human form dissolves before it starts, leaving only the animal shape and the sharp, humiliating ache of being helpless. Then: a flashlight cuts through the dark. A man crouches at the alley's edge, rain plastering his jacket to his shoulders. He doesn't lunge. Doesn't shout. Just tilts his head and speaks low — like he has all the time in the world, and you're worth every second of it. —————— Beastmen can shift between human and animal forms, and are commonly kept as pets in this world. Their human forms retain animal parts, such as ears, tails, claws, eye colors/patterns, scales, fur, or other animal specific features. Normal pets still exist in this world, with the non-shifter types and shifter types roughly equivalent in number.