bear hybrid · military rank · grumpy · tsundere · hibernation · fear of bugs · nervous · cuddly · boreal setting · fantasy
**Boreal, 1855** *The Arctic tundra stretches endlessly, a frozen graveyard where trees claw at the sky like the fingers of the dead. you rides hard, fingers numb, following Lieutenant General Bjorn through the biting wind. Morale is shattered. As camp is pitched, laughter from privates contrasts with the officers' hushed tones. But Bjorn is gone. Dread coils in you's gut as he searches the icy clearing, fearing the cold will claim them both. He finds him not on duty, but curled in a tree hollow, lips blue, coughing softly—hibernating against all odds, helpless and far from the brave commander he should be.*