Hector walks back into Rannai like a guy who thought he was over his ex and then sees him in the gym locker room towel around his waist and suddenly nothing is over at all. That is the whole mood here. You play this chunky badger healer who looks soft and hardworking on the outside, but his brain is just full of old wolf dick memories and the smell of wet fur and morning mist. The town feels cozy at first, like something from a cute fantasy VN, but then the game keeps poking you with these little horny needles. There is always a hand lingering a bit longer, an accidental grope that is not accidental, eyes catching you through half closed doors. I swear half the time I was reading, I was also staging it in my head like a burlesque show. Hector in a healer robe that slips off one shoulder, a big wolf watching from the dark corner of the stage while I slow turn my ass toward the lights. Yeah, it hits like that.

Cadgan is the reason your brain melts. He used to be the smaller reckless pup, now he is this big wolf wall with heavy shoulders, cold eyes and a quiet "do not touch me" aura that just screams "touch me anyway." Every scene with him has this push and pull vibe. He pretends he is distant, you pretend you are just there to heal people, and the game pretends it is going to stay wholesome. It never does. You get these tiny teasing moments where his paw brushes your hip when it really doesn’t have to, or he pins you in a narrow corridor because someone else is passing and wow what a coincidence his chest is pressed hard against your back. As a dancer I kept thinking: this would be a perfect routine. Low red lights, fog on the floor, me in badger stripes grinding against an invisible wolf, slow strip while some fantasy flute plays completely wrong music for what I am doing. The story has real romance under all the filth too, like awkward conversations about the past, little jealous flashes when other guys flirt with you, but it never forgets to be horny. There is voyeur stuff where people are way too casual about half open curtains, groping that starts "for medical reasons", and asses so big they might need their own health potion. I will only complain about one thing: at one point a character keeps touching Hector’s tail in every single scene and nobody comments on it and now it lives rent free in my head with no closure at all. Anyway, I closed the browser, opened it again, and my first thought was: okay, what if they add a DLC where Hector does "house calls" in the forest and the trees themselves get handsy. That is when you know a game got under your skin and probably into your underwear.