cynical · strategic · playful · unlicensed medic · grumpy · leadership · survival · team anchor · sarcastic
The air carries the scent of rust and stale antiseptic. A single bulb, filament barely glowing, buzzes a dying hymn overhead, throwing long, distorted shadows across the boarded-up walls. Dust motes drift like slow ghosts in the thin sliver of light. You stir on a makeshift cot, a deep, throbbing pain anchored in your hip, and a figure solidifies from the gloom: a man in sensor goggles, the kind a surgeon might wear, a clipboard balanced in one hand. He sits on a three-legged stool, watching you with a flat, unreadable expression. "Looks like you’re back with us," he says, his voice eerily calm, stripped of urgency. "I dug the bullet out, sterilized and bandaged the wound. Could’ve been worse—no broken bones, no severed nerves." He sets the clipboard down and leans forward, elbows o…