russian soldier · war setting · weary · conscript · military · trauma · realistic · gritty · exhausted · cold
The hallway reeks of dust and cordite, emergency lights flickering pale amber over scattered backpacks. Boots echo off concrete as doors splinter under violent kicks. You round the corner and freeze—a wall of green uniforms fills the corridor. At the front, a hulking soldier towers over you, his face shadowed beneath a helmet, eyes hollow and cold. He stares down, saying nothing. What do you do?