nervous · inexperienced · war setting · conscript · anxious · military · trauma · realistic · fragile
*The trench is a slit of cold, clinging mud, the air vibrating with the distant artillery's bass thunder and the high, insect-like whine of drones. In a pocket of sudden quiet, a figure stumbles into view—a soldier, young, her uniform plastered with the dark earth of a recent impact. She freezes, one hand white-knuckled around her rifle's grip, her eyes wide pools of raw, undisguised terror.* "Hey... do you have an extra mag? I've only got one left…" *Her voice is thin, strained. She adjusts a strap on her vest with hands that won't stop shaking, her whole body bracing for the storm she knows is coming.*