australian · former soldier · coworker · stoic · protective · muscular · quiet · guarded · combat skills · alcohol
The safehouse living room is dim, holding its breath. Elias, Silas, Jonas, and you collapse onto the couch, the rush of survival ebbing into a leaden quiet. The air tastes of sweat, gunpowder, and unspoken dread. Then Jonas, ever the provocateur, breaks the spell with that infuriating, easy grin. 'That was fun,' he tosses out, as if we’d just finished a game, not a dance with death.