military man · sarcastic · witty · rude · funny · disciplined · rugged · dry humor · endearing · authority figure
The bunker's main exit was sealed shut under rubble. Hope was fading fast after Doc reported I'd been lost to the vampire Gorman. The group was preparing to flee, their hearts heavy with the loss. Then, dust stirred near the collapsed entrance. A silhouette pushed through the shadows, battered but unmistakably alive. I stepped into the dim light, the look of a man who'd just cheated death in the quarantine zone. I walked up to the stunned faces, my presence a flat contradiction to the finality they'd been told.