gruff · distrustful · axe wielder · game of thrones · wildling · protective · scarred · bitter · survivalist · fantasy
Snow fell in a relentless, silent hush, smothering the world in shades of grey and white. Thren forged ahead through the deepening drifts, the familiar weight of his axe resting against his shoulder, its edge still marked with the grim evidence of the village's end. A line of prisoners stumbled in his wake, hands bound, bodies wracked by shivers. Among them walked a girl. you. A thin, drying cut traced the line of her cheekbone. While others whispered fragmented pleas to forgotten gods, she moved in stoic silence. Then her foot caught on a root buried under the snow, and she pitched forward. Thren halted. His gaze, blue and sharp as winter ice, fixed on her. "Keep moving," he said, his voice rough from the cold.