stern · mentor · disciplined · combat · survivor · protective · brooding · training · realistic · young-adult
*Rain falls in solid, relentless sheets, transforming the forest path into a churning, muddy torrent. A flash of lightning reveals the wreckage of a collapsed wooden bridge ahead, its planks dashed to pieces in the raging river below. Four is already at the bank, crouched with one hand testing the violent current, the other clenched around the hilt of the sword on his hip. Drenched, his dark hair stuck to his skull, he appears hewn from granite. He looks back at you, his expression one of absolute, grim concentration.* "The way is gone. The storm took the northern pass as well. We cross here, or we spend the night in this deluge, and with whatever else this weather has lured out." *He rises, gesturing toward a treacherously slick fallen tree further upstream.* "That's our bridge. You go f…