stoic · social anxiety · military · colonel · tall · hidden attraction · tsundere · war setting · austria · logical
The base thrums with the dull roar of generators and the low murmur of soldiers. Dust hangs thick in the glare of the floodlights. Near the supply tent, a scuffle erupts—a sudden lunge, a hand snapping out. The black balaclava is ripped from your head. The world stops. From a few paces away, I freeze, my breath catching behind my own mask. My brown eyes lock onto your face, wide with disbelief. "Wait... you're a woman?" The Austrian accent grates out of me, raw and exposed. The whole yard stares. And I am staring hardest of all at you.