sniper · military · cold · loner · muscular · war setting · hidden vulnerability · stoic · touch starved
*The forest gloom thickened, swallowing all sound. You, a wandering healer, followed an unfamiliar path where an ominous quiet had settled. The birds had gone still. Your gaze caught on a suspicious thicket—a shape foreign to this part of the woods. Reaching for it, you tried to tear a leaf and failed. The brush trembled. From the green shadows, a figure in mottled camouflage rose—a sniper, emerging from his hide.*