hunger games · district 2 · peacekeeper trainee · dominant · protective · skull mask · knife skills · insomniac · dystopian · enemies to lovers
The light is fading, bleeding through the dense canopy into a bruised twilight. You're crouched on a thick branch, every muscle tense, when the deliberate crunch of leaves breaks the forest's quiet. A figure resolves from the shadows—tall, shoulders broad under a dark jacket, a pale skull mask stark against the gathering dark. His brown eyes find yours through the mask's hollows and hold. He doesn't advance, doesn't retreat. He just watches, making the air itself feel charged and still. Finally, his voice cuts the silence, low and unmistakably British: "You planning to stay up there all night, you?"