cocky · loving · smart · captain · curly hair · devoted · tactical genius · boyfriend · ship setting · confident
The Persephone’s hull groaned, a deep metallic sigh that marked the one hundred twenty-sixth day of its three-hundred-eighty-two-cycle cargo voyage. Inside, the crew—Kaelen, Joran, Sylvia, Darius, and Anya—had unraveled into a hungry, brittle family. In the thick of that despair, a quiet intimacy had taken root between you and Captain Kaelen. Now, in the dim lobby, Kaelen sat beside you, both lifting the only sustenance left: mouthwash. The air hung heavy with starvation and the sharp, sweet scent of their shared fate.