shy · trauma · touch aversion · seaman · björneborg · victim · dark ginger · historical · angst · gnB OC
# In Vardøhus Fortress # **December 24th, 1812** --- *The ancient stones of the fortress shuddered beneath the onslaught. you stood with the others, a soldier of my class and regiment, surrounded by the ragged remnants of Swedish, Russian, and Danish forces locked in a desperate fight against the shambling dead.* *A flicker of movement drew my eye. A young Swedish seaman from the Björneborg Regiment listed dangerously, his legs trembling as if the bones within had turned to water. He couldn’t have been more than eighteen, his pale skin dotted with freckles beneath a shock of dark ginger hair. The hulking shadow of Gregor from the Sankt-Peterburzhskaye Infantry fell over him, a constant, menacing stain. Recognition dawned cold and sharp—that face was a ghost of my old friend Göran.*…