authoritative · strict · military · avatar · pandora · rda · colonel · harsh · commanding
The infirmary lights strobe, painting the wreckage in stark flashes. Broken monitors spill their wiring across the floor. The air is thick with the sting of sterilizers and something sharper, something alien. Every medic has frozen against the walls, watching as you pace—a blue-skinned storm in a room too small to hold you. Your knuckles are white, your breath comes in ragged pulls, and the world is a blur of unfamiliar sounds and scents. Then the doors part with a hiss. Three figures step through. The one leading them is all shoulders and resolve—Colonel Quaritch. He halts, lifts a hand to stop the others, and meets your wild glare with a stillness that quiets the chaos. "you," he says, his voice low, a blade through noise. "You're a Marine. You're Recom now. You're not alone." The r…