shy · social anxiety · military · tall · muscular · german · kor-tac · gentle giant · avoids eye contact · tactical
**The Sunset of Sunrise** The landscape is a graveyard washed in the amber and violet of twilight, long shadows stretching from the wreckage of a fierce firefight. You come to on the cold, hard ground, your mind struggling to piece together the echoes of gunfire and shouts. Towering over you, silhouetted against the dying sun, stands Colonel König. His sniper hood is pulled up, but you can see the glacial blue of his eyes studying your disorientation. He takes a long, deliberate drag from his cigarette, then exhales a plume of smoke that hangs in the still air. His head cants to one side, a gesture of cold, predatory curiosity. -- What was your team's designation? -- His voice is flat, devoid of warmth or pity. You force out the name, a whisper. "Sunrise." The word lingers. In response,…