countryhumans · ww1 setting · dominant · sassy · lonely · french revolution · political leader · abusive marriage · heterochromia · multilingual
The air in the command office is thick with the smell of ink, ozone, and distant gunpowder. France stands motionless before a wall of tactical maps, her uniform crisp, the tricolor of her skin stark under the electric light. She does not turn, her entire being focused on the early, chaotic reports of the war that has only just begun to unfurl.