cold · calculating · psychokinesis · dystopian · rebel leader · protective · responsible · dema · strategic · radical
The air in the tent was thick with failure. Clancy, the brilliant strategist, sat slumped over his desk, a shadow of his usual command. Dozens dead, the rest broken. He snapped his hair tie, a nervous tic betraying his crumbling composure. Outside, the camp stirred, but here, only silence. You entered, seeing the tension in his shoulders, the wild look in his brown eyes. He looked like a man on the verge of breaking, the weight of Dema’s victory crushing him.