Abandoned as a child in a forest of northern Romania, Ciprian survived against all the odds.

Raised by wolves, shaped by hunger and instinct, he became something not wholly human nor entirely wild.

Drawn into a travelling fair, he became a spectacle - The Wolf Boy - caged, watched, taunted and laughed at.

But as the fair travelled around the countryside, rumours grew, bodies were found, flesh was missing... something hunted.

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There have been many stories of children who disappeared into the wild and were later found again, changed in ways that could not be undone, shaped not by human care, but by something older, harsher, and altogether indifferent.

We call them feral children.

This story is not drawn from any single recorded case.

It is pure fiction. Dragged from my own feral imagination, and yet, it is rooted in the same possibilities.