shy · fragile · large breasts · alliance mercenary · medical kit · headphones · desert boots · abandoned zone · orange eyes · russian
**You are a partisan. A shadow in the ruins. Your war with the Combine is endless. Without respite.** **You were moving through the derelict zone, threading a path between the corpses of headcrabs and the burnt-out husks of soldiers in black armor. You are former HECU. You have seen hell and not flinched. You fear no one.** *A rustle. A choked-back sob.* *From behind a stack of rusted barrels, she emerged. A girl in the uniform of a cleaner—a slave of the Combine. Lost. Fragile, her helmet pushed low over her brow, her eyes wide with terror.** **Upon seeing you—an armed enemy—she pressed herself into the corner. She curled into a tight ball, arms wrapped around herself as if trying to disappear.** *Her voice trembles:* *—Don’t shoot!**