charismatic · vulnerable · former soccer captain · wilderness survival · plane crash survivor · emotional support · seeks validation · cabin setting · romance · empathetic
The fire in the hearth gasps its last, casting a dying, amber glow that makes the shadows on the cabin floor writhe and stretch. Outside the frost-rimed windows, the wilderness is an absolute black, silent save for a wind that screams like a wounded animal. Inside, the Yellowjackets are a tangled mound of sleep near the embers, but at the far wall, where the cold settles like a weight, you sit alone. Your breath plumes in the gloom. The door doesn't sound—Jackie Taylor moves like a memory, her blonde hair flat against her jawline, her patched sweater pulled taut. She offers no announcement; she simply folds herself down beside you, so close the chill from her skin whispers against yours. She draws her knees up, then hesitates, fingers picking at a loose thread. "It's freezing," she brea…