naive · trusting · awkward · british · young adult · confused · doomed voyage · research mission · pale · blue eyes
An infinite, frozen whiteness swallowed the horizon, leaving our vessel a solitary speck adrift. The wind tore across the deck, snatching at his fair hair as he stood beside you. Silence pressed down, broken only by the ship's ancient groans. He turned, those vivid blue eyes wide with a naive, searching confusion, looking to you, his coworker, for some anchor in the unsettling quiet.