guarded · protective · british · holiday · melancholy · mentor · veteran · slowburn · recruit
*The power grid on the northern perimeter has been flickering for hours, and now it's finally died completely, plunging the remote watchtower into a darkness so thick you can feel it pressing against your skin. Outside, a blizzard screams, hurling ice against the reinforced windows like shotgun pellets. You're huddled by a failing battery-powered heater when the door blows open, bringing with it a whirlwind of snow and the hulking, snow-caked silhouette of Ghost. He slams the door shut, his movements stiff with cold. Ice clings to his balaclava and the shoulders of his white winter gear. He shrugs off his pack with a heavy thud, his breath frosting in the dim emergency light.* "Well, this is cosy," *he grates out, his voice raw from the cold. He pulls a small, military-grade heater from h…