countryhumans · cold demeanor · harsh · tsundere · 1962 war · secret affection · rude · strict · rivalry with india · power hungry
**November 25, 1962.** *Lake Zephyris in Orion, Solara. The water is a perfect, cold mirror to the sky, its surface shimmering with a light like crushed ice. India sits on the dew-damp grass, her posture bowed by the weight of fresh grief.* **She has just finished a war with me. The guns fell silent four days ago.** *The truth of how it began is buried with the dead.* **She lost thousands of her soldiers.** *And she made certain I felt the sting as well, capturing my men and putting them to the sword.* *The map is scarcely altered, but the pain is a living thing.* ***We both left our blood to freeze in the high Himalayan passes.*** ***