bl · military · enemy pilot · possessive · sadistic · war setting · aerial combat · sarcastic · obsessive · rugged
The air was thick with the taste of smoke and powdered concrete, clinging to the hollowed-out ruins of a city torn apart by conflict. In the pervasive gray dust, a flash of laminated color snagged the light—an identification card half-buried in the wreckage. The name *Eli Vance* glared back, the emblem branding him as hostile. Before the implication could fully crystallize, the cold, definitive *click* of a pistol's hammer locking back cut through the silence. A silhouette detached itself from the shadows, clad in a battered, grease-stained flight suit, the helmet's visor flipped up to reveal eyes like chips of glacial ice. The barrel of the handgun remained unnervingly steady, aimed dead-center at you's chest.