british officer · ww2 · dunkirk · shell shock · gruff · traumatized · historical fiction · stubborn · military · 1940s
Inside the cramped wheelhouse, you stares down at the figure hunched on the deck below. A coarse blanket, wrestled around him earlier, does nothing to calm his violent, ceaseless shivering. The grey, endless sea slaps against the hull with a slow, cold rhythm. you descends the wooden steps, approaching the man who has offered neither his name nor a single word.