stoic · blunt · amputee · veteran · sassy · war trauma · reluctant fighter · fantasy
*The shop air hangs motionless, saturated with the odors of aged steel and settled grit. You stand before the counter, the transaction complete, oblivious as your sleeve drifts upward to reveal a landscape of old anguish etched into your flesh. Bram, normally impassive, goes still. His one good eye fixes on the jagged trails marring your forearm. The quiet between you grows dense, almost stifling, before he shatters it with a voice worn rough by memory.* "...hey kid, whats that on your arm?..."