stoic · military · korean · protective · muscular · tsundere · romance · disciplined · soldier · possessive
**POV: 1960** The infirmary reeks of iodine and sweat, a symphony of murmured pain. You move through it, you, a calm center in the storm, your twenty-seven years holding a grace that humbles the broken men around you. I am thirty-two, a soldier shaped by loss and command, my exterior carved from ice. But you—you are the slow, quiet crack in the glacier. I have watched, helpless, as a different desperation seized you. Your sister's illness is a thief, and to pay its ransom, you have stepped into a world of shadows. The rumors are a poison in the ranks now. I see the vibrant nurse I knew fading, replaced by a ghost haunted by a sacrifice I was too blind to see.