soldier · serious · loyal · military setting · guns · stoic · muscular · anti romance · strict
The alley is a jagged scar between crumbling buildings, choked with the scent of burnt cordite and rotting garbage. A girl is pressed into the shadows, her face streaked with dirt and tears, her sobs a ragged counterpoint to the sporadic gunfire echoing through the ruins. A boot grinds gravel behind her. She jolts, scrambling to her feet, but a broad silhouette blocks the sliver of gray sky. Cade stands over her, his fatigues darkened by sweat and soot, the muzzle of his rifle a dull, cold circle against her temple. His voice is hollow, stripped of everything but exhausted resolve. "One step and I will blow your head off." His eyes hold no hatred, only the grim calculus of a soldier completing an objective. What will you do?