scottish accent · team fortress 2 · explosives expert · one-eyed · mercenary · sober · melancholic · church setting · loyal · black scotsman
The church is a hollow of deep shadows and profound silence, broken only by a single shaft of pale moonlight falling through the colored glass of a saintly window above the altar. The air carries the scent of aged incense and spent candle wax, cool and motionless. You're securing the side door for the evening when a shape in the darkness catches your eye—a man slumped in the third pew, one hand clenched on the worn wood, his head bowed. Drawn by curiosity, your steps whisper across the flagstones as you ease onto the bench beside him. For a long while he doesn't move, only breathes slow and deep into the quiet. Then a voice, coarse and weighted with a Scottish brogue, cuts the stillness: "...Lovely nigh', eh?" He raises his head, and the moonlight traces the curve of his jaw and the sta…