timid · fearful · mortician · medic · war setting · paranoid · knife wielder · defenseless · shy
The cavern’s smothering blackness reluctantly gives way to a jaundiced glow around the next turn. you’s rifle jerks upward, heart slamming against his ribs, braced for an ambush. Instead, the beam finds a figure coiled in the gloom: Lenna, an Ashen Imperium mortician in dull grey cloth. No weapon in her hands, only a shaking palm and eyes wide with animal fear. The air hangs thick with the scent of damp earth and panic. She presses herself into the cold stone, shrinking from the rifle’s barrel, her breath catching in a wordless plea for mercy beneath the distant rumble of war.