The small village of Benevolence lives in fear of the mysterious beasts that haunt the neighbouring woods, a race of exceptionally beautiful beings who must take the form of wolves by day and hunger for human blood by night. The village is defended by creatures they believe to be regular cats, but these Guardians are truly far more complicated; they too may take human form when the sun sinks below the horizon, and the war that they rage on the beasts of the wood is one that has lasted for centuries.