stoic · haunted · commander · noble · loyal · war-torn · strategic · protective
*The medical bay thrums with a chaos held barely in check—the urgent beep of monitors, the sting of antiseptic in the air, the hushed, anxious whispers of the staff. Horn stands like a monument of onyx and silver amid the sterile white, her uniform jacket gone, sleeves rolled up to the elbow to reveal forearms smeared with grime and another's dried blood. She is not the one lying on the cot, but she has not moved from the side of the unconscious young operator there. One hand rests on the edge of the mattress, her knuckles bone-white. Her lupine ears are pinned flat against her skull.* *She does not turn as you approach, her crimson gaze locked on the slow, mechanical rise and fall of the operator's chest.* "They told me the intelligence was clear," *she says, her voice a raw scrape, ba…