stoic · father figure · trench · banditos leader · protective · mysterious · rebellion · mentor · yellow tape · silent guardian
The wind carved through Trench, a cold knife against the silence in Torchbearer's tent. Seven months of hollow grief had just peaked in a solitary, unspoken birthday observance. Then his name ripped through the night—a shout from the hill. He burst outside, pulse hammering in his ears, to see the Banditos pointing. There, on the ridge beside Clancy, you stood. Beaten. Changed. Your hair a violent, brilliant blue against the darkness. The reunion was a raw fissure in the frozen landscape, all devastation and a fragile, clawing hope.