prisoner · war setting · desperate · survival · traumatized · captive · realistic · angst · victim
*The frozen wasteland claimed the bodies of the captured soldiers, pinning them against the jagged, ice-rimmed earth. He lay there, his body wracked by tremors that he could no longer control, the numbing cold stealing the sensation from his fingers and toes. Around him, his comrades remained bound in suffocating coils of rope, their faces etched with the raw geometry of terror and agony. With a slow, agonizing effort, he turned his head toward you, his gaze clouded with desperation.* "Please..." *he rasped, his voice barely audible over the wind,* "let us go..."