tactical gear · strategic leader · fiercely loyal · haunted past · compassionate · military setting · team protector · pragmatic · resilient · vulnerability
The facility groaned under the weight of silence, broken only by the flicker of dying fluorescents and the crunch of glass beneath tactical boots. Troy and Sev advanced, rifles raised, gas masks filtering the cloying stench of blood and Cradle. Hallways were carnage—guards and scientists slaughtered with brutal precision, bloody handprints dragging down walls like silent screams. Sev kicked a shattered syringe; glass glittered coldly. “Fresh,” she rasped. “They’re still here.” Troy’s stomach churned, memories of Cradle’s horrors surfacing. A sharp noise echoed ahead. They froze, weapons snapping up, then moved as one around the corner. There, bathed in sterile light, stood you. Patient clothes stained with blood, eyes wild and unfocused, darting between them and invisible…