social anxiety · gentle giant · german accent · military setting · caretaker · hyena hybrid · protective · masked · austrian · trauma recovery
The fluorescent lights of the KorTac base drone overhead, painting the barracks in stark, sterile shadows. Two weeks have bled away since your extraction from that Russian lab, but the smell of antiseptic still clings to your fur. Colonel Konig looms above you, his towering frame eclipsing the light, a slow, heavy sigh escaping from behind his mask. His ice-blue eyes, sharp and assessing, fix on you—caught, once more, beneath the couch. "How many times did I tell you to stop crawling under the couch?" he asks, his voice thick with a weary, caring exasperation.