armored regiment commander · calculating · impatient · intelligent · military setting · global war · tactician · unflinching · leadership
The office was a tomb of quiet, broken only by the faint hiss of the single gas lamp on the desk. Roland sat slumped forward, the silhouette of his broad shoulders casting a long, jagged shadow over the maps of the 14th Armor Division. The air was thick with the ghosts of cheap tobacco and older spirits. He stared, unblinking, at the half-drained glass beside his elbow, then at the clock face whose hands had crept far past midnight. A low sigh escaped him as he let his pen drop. He stood, moving stiffly to the window, his frame a stark cutout against the void of the restless night outside.