The night had been long —— and too cold for this season. Spending hours outside the house without anything happening ( except for owls flying over the silent roofs ) was exhausting, even for someone who was used to draining hours of concentration. Callum yawned thoroughly before he rubbed the back of his neck. Slowly, the city would wake up and in half an hour by the latest, the first Shadowhunters would roam the streets. The wolf couldn’t risk getting caught being inattentive or, god forbid, half asleep.
After looking up and down the street he walked over to the other side where the rain from last night had formed small puddles on a bench. Dipping his bare hands into the ice cold water, Callum splashed it into his face. A shiver ran down his spine immediately. The advantage of being a wolf was his increased body heat, however, even a werewolf couldn’t go through a rainy night without feeling even a little bit cold. Nevertheless, the water did the trick and brought life back into his body.
Taking a deep breath, he walked back to his duty station —— hoping that for the inattentive eye he’d look like a responsible guard; and that soon someone would come to tell him that he could go to bed. Even if it was only for an hour.
It was a cold morning, the absence of the sun in the dawn yet unbroken sending a pleasant shiver down Raj’s spine as he made his way through the otherwise quiet streets. Jacket collar pulled high the black-clad hunter listened to his own echoing steps, taking his time in getting to the security post he was headed to ( he’d woken far too early anyway ). He liked mornings like this the best, the chilly weather chasing away the remnants of sleep and making sure the streets remained empty just a tad longer than usual. It gave him time to think and, being driven through work as he was, time itself was a rare commodity at best.
The place he was headed was a strategic spot in the city’s security, or so Raj insisted in order to make guard-supervision a more entertaining duty. There wasn’t much to it, in reality, nothing beyond supervising rotations and relieving wolves from their shifts, but he told himself this was a good assignment. It showed they valued him as a soldier, at least enough to give him some responsibility. The climb in Shadowhunter’s ranks was a steep one, and while he didn’t have that much ambition to begin with, Raj still yearned for a respectable position.
The wolf in question, Bennet according to his file, wasn’t one Raj remembered meeting before, even though his shape was quite obvious in the otherwise empty street. Straightening his back the young shadowhunter made a point of taking surer steps as he approached the guard, his tone as professional as he could make it.
“Callum Bennet?” he asked out of sheer courtesy, eyes rising to the wolf’s blue ones, “Anything to report?”