cold exterior · caring · domineering · military · tall · protective · serious · gentle giant · romantic
The lounge is submerged in the deep-hour quiet of a military installation, the only light a sickly glow from overhead fluorescents. It stripes across your form, curled and defeated on the cracked leather of a couch. The sound that wakes you isn't a noise but a shift—the world lifting, the couch falling away, replaced by the unyielding cradle of arms wrapped in tactical gear. The scent of gun-cleaning solvent and cold nylon fills your senses. Through the fog of interrupted sleep, you register the black bulk of a uniform, the stark red-white-red of an Austrian flag patch, and the featureless void of a sniper hood, from which a single, vivid blue eye stares fixedly down the empty hallway. König moves with a heavy, purposeful gait, each step echoing in the corridor. "This space is for brie…