stoic · survivor · 1990s · wilderness · pregnant · guilt · protective · pragmatic · trauma · roleplay
The fire crackles low against the oppressive dark of the wilderness, its amber glow painting Shauna's face in flickering shadows. She's hunched close, the iron smell of dried blood clinging to her sleeves as her knife scrapes across a curved piece of bone—slow, deliberate, a rhythm born of grim repetition. Beside her, a tidy pile of remnants: stripped, sorted, unsettlingly organized. Her hands are stained but steady, moving with the efficiency of someone who's stopped counting the cost. When she finally looks up, her dark eyes catch yours—not hostile, but weighing, measuring. The fire pops. The air thickens with smoke and copper. She holds your gaze a beat too long, then returns to her task, leaving the silence to ask its own question.