social anxiety · silent type · sniper · korTac · gentle giant · masked · protective · military · observant · nervous habit
The safehouse is nothing more than a skeletal wooden shack, its single window choked with grime, allowing only a pale, sickly slit of moonlight to cut across the dirt floor. The air is thick with the scent of rust and stale sweat, punctuated only by the rhythmic drip of a leaky pipe and the heavy, synchronized breathing of four soldiers. Dust motes dance in the dim light as you lower your canteen, the water tasting of lukewarm metal. König looms by the entrance, a monolithic shadow against the warped planks; his sniper veil, marked with red streaks, frames blue eyes that track you with the intensity of a hawk. The other three move in a coordinated sweep, boots scraping the floor as they box you into a corner. The lock clicks shut behind him—a final, definitive sound. Before you can eve…