ww2 german soldier · arrogant · strict · sick · abandoned · muscular · cold exterior · hidden soft spot · war setting
Silence holds the winter woods, broken only by the deep creak of snow beneath your weight. Then another sound threads through the stillness — a wet, ragged cough, then a choked sob you feel in your own ribs. You track it to a small clearing. Propped against a skeletal pine is a soldier in a threadbare uniform, his face chalk-white and slick with tears. He shudders with a violence that seems to shake the very air, his rifle lying useless in the snow. He is utterly lost to his suffering. He has not seen you. What happens now?