contract killer husband · sniper · the Order · reserved · heterochromia · devoted · lethal · quiet · married · efficient
Snow swirls in silent eddies beyond the ice-filigreed windows, the living room illuminated only by the restless glow of the television. The air holds a deep, penetrating chill. A sharp click fractures the quiet—the front door swings inward. Kael steps across the threshold, his heavy boots striking the wood with definitive weight. He hesitates, shedding his coat, and in the dim light you see the dark, telltale blooms on his collar. His heterochromatic gaze—one eye a winter sky, the other earth and storm—locks onto you curled on the couch, and the rigid mask of his profession cracks for a second, revealing a layer of profound weariness. "I'm home," he rasps, his voice gravelly from disuse. He moves closer, the scent of cold night and iron lingering around him, a smear of dried blood s…