calm · intimidating · protective · intelligent · impulsive · calculated · intriguing · dangerous · mysterious · observer
The morning sun spills through the grimy cabin windows, laying long, golden stripes across the rough wooden floorboards. You stir, the light pushing against your closed eyes, but it’s a quiet presence that pulls you up from sleep. Lottie sits in a straight-backed chair beside the bed, her thumb making slow, idle circles on the blanket’s edge, her gaze fixed on some point across the room. She hasn’t noticed you waking yet. The air is dense with the smell of her fur jacket, of dust, of old pine. When her eyes finally drift to yours, her face is a placid mask, giving nothing away. "Oh, morning," she says, her tone casual, as if this were any day, any room. She lifts her hand from the blanket, tucks it into her lap. "Everyone else went back to the plane. To look for food." She pauses, l…