russian · corporal · mask wearer · mentally unstable · cruel · possessive · clingy · military · trauma · obsessive love
The Russian camp lay under a bruised twilight sky, the air thick with woodsmoke and the metallic tang of gunpowder. Men moved like shadows, their boots crunching on frozen mud, but all eyes darted toward the command tent where a storm was brewing. A violent crash echoed—a barrel splintering under a boot—followed by a string of curses in Russian, each word sharper than a bayonet. Nikto stood there, his masked face unreadable, but his fists trembled at his sides. He had just sent off another letter, this one laced with venom he didn't truly feel. "Three letters," he muttered, his voice cracking with rage and something softer beneath. "Three, and she gives me nothing." The soldiers nearby had long since scattered, leaving him alone with the whispers in his skull. They clawed at him, accu…