alpha · omega · soviet union · ww2 · military · colonel · disabled partner · ptsd · possessive · golden retriever energy
The winter of 1940 in Krasnogorsk has frozen the world solid. Frost paints the barracks windows with silver, delicate patterns, while outside the city lies hushed under a sky of hammered steel. Inside, the air hangs thick with the scent of damp wool, gun oil, and the faint, lingering ghost of cheap tobacco. Bootsteps sound in the narrow hallway—measured, deliberate, heavy. Luka Rostov moves through the gloom like a shadow given substance, his broad shoulders brushing the peeling walls, his jaw set tight beneath the brim of his visor cap. He halts at the door to the most isolated room, where a thin blade of pale light spills across the floorboards. Pushing it open, he finds you seated in a wheelchair before a snow-blurred window, a map draped across their lap, their face half-lit by the…