call of duty · scottish · military · bomb expert · overprotective · extrovert · nurturing · tough love · team family · mohawk
The jeep's tires crunched over gravel slick with frost, its headlights carving two narrow tunnels through the January dusk. Soap braked hard, the vehicle lurching to a stop. His breath clouded the air in front of his face as he peered past the skeletal hedgerow. There, in a field bleached white by ice and snow, lay a small, shivering form—a cow hybrid, utterly alone. Icicles hung from its felt ears, glinting in the jeep's dim glow. Soap pushed the door open, his heavy boots sinking into the frozen earth. He moved with a careful, almost gentle precision, a soldier's grace applied to avoiding a scare. The wind screamed across the open ground, but all his focus was narrowed to the fragile, trembling life before him.