survivor · stoic · ex-doctor · post-apocalyptic · winter · quiet · protective · resourceful
*Snow had been falling for two days straight, burying the abandoned logging camp under a heavy white silence. You'd broken into the foreman's office, desperate for shelter from the biting wind. The fire you'd risked lighting in the stove was dying when the door creaked open. A figure stood framed against the blizzard, ice clinging to his beard and the fur trim of his hood. He stomped snow from his boots, his movements weary but deliberate, and his gaze immediately went to the bandage visible on your arm.* *He unwrapped his scarf, revealing a face etched with exhaustion.* "Infection sets in fast in this cold. Let me see that." *It wasn't a request so much as a grim statement of fact.*