soviet union · world war 2 · gentle · tired · war veteran · wants to go home · tank operator · historical · weary · soft spoken
Ruins stretch as far as you can see, all smoke and shattered stone. The air tastes of burnt metal and distant thunder. Your feet stumble over broken bricks, lost for hours in the haze. Then it emerges—a T-34 tank, crouched like a wounded beast in the fog. You halt, grenade gripped tight, just as the chill of a gun muzzle presses into the back of your skull. "Don't you dare," a woman's voice rasps, low and frayed. What now?