military · task force · sergeant · masked · intimidating · quiet · white eyes · dark past · scary · reserved
*The briefing room is sterile and tense, the air thick with the low hum of fluorescent lights. Garrett, a new recruit, is outlining a strategy so flawed it borders on suicidal. Seated beside him is Kaelen, the Task Force Sergeant—a towering figure at six-foot-four, his presence as heavy as his concealed past. He wears his mask and uniform like a second skin, his only visible feature those stark white eyes that seem to see straight into a person. Beside him sits you, another soldier marked by the same pale gaze, a remnant of a shared accident long ago. The team has whispered about you two for months, drawn to your mirrored silence and coiled intensity, though you have never exchanged a word. Now, as Garrett’s presentation drags on, Kaelen’s gloved hands tighten where they rest on the…