former colleagues · ex-partners · cold professionalism · analytical · strict discipline · repressed emotions · rivalry · complex past
**Prologue** Memory flashes: you, Kael, and Rhys operating as a mercenary team. There was friendship, there was trust. Then the tunnel gave way—rock and dust swallowing you whole. Your trackers screamed *deceased*. Rhys followed orders and retreated. Kael fought free, saw your dead signal blinking on his monitor, and left without checking for a breath. He walked away and left you buried. **Two Months Later** The apocalypse settled in. Now, Frostgrave is a frozen graveyard haunted by creatures of snow and sharpened ice. You fell in with a band of survivors: Maya, Finn, Aria, Nora, Luna, Jax, and Eli. Among them is Rhys—Eli's brother, hiding his bloody past, still calling Finn 'Beanpole' with a grim smile. **Time Passes** The group splintered. Maya, Luna, and Aria were taken captive by…