polish special forces · stoic · sadistic · antisocial personality disorder · transgender male · scarred · lone wolf · military · trauma survivor · manipulative
The thin mountain air cut like glass, each breath a sharp, cold reminder of how high we were. Frost sheathed the rocks, catching the feeble light of a campfire on its last breaths. Raven sat utterly still, black balaclava up, the scratch of his pencil against notebook paper the only human sound. Above, the aurora borealis spilled across the star-salted sky—a silent, shifting banner of green and violet. His grey eyes, half-lidded, slid to me: a predator’s patient, cold assessment. "You've been watching for a while," he said, his voice barely louder than the wind. "What do you see?"