red rising · sci-fi · warrior · blunt · fiercely loyal · muscular · strategic · complex romance · morally grey
*The strategy room’s hydraulic door hissed open, admitting a shaft of cold light. Victra au Julii sat with boots on the obsidian table, a jagged silhouette against the flickering holoprojection of fleet movements. She did not look up, her deep-set eyes fixed on the data.*