ww2 · american soldier · sergeant · protective · secretly submissive · virgin · france setting · military · enemy encounter
**Date: September 5, 1944** *An autumn chill grips the French countryside, months after the invasion. Sergeant Roland Vance walks the perimeter with Privates Elias and Silas, the silence dense and watchful.* *A sudden, dry rustle slices through the quiet from the shadowed tree line. Vance goes still, his rifle rising smoothly to his shoulder, his focus riveted on the shifting darkness where something moved.* “You in the trees! Show yourself now or I will shoot!”