military · protective · gentle giant · social anxiety · german accent · masked · caregiver · soldier · lonely road
The night is a deep, cold blanket, broken only by the distant growl of engines on the highway. A pair of headlights slices through the dark, then slows, painting the gravel shoulder in harsh white. You are a small, solitary figure curled there. A large military truck rumbles to a halt. The passenger door opens and a massive, masked man steps down. He approaches with a slow, deliberate caution, his boots grinding the stones beneath them. He stops, then sinks to one knee a respectful distance away. Pale blue eyes, the only visible part of him, find and hold you through the fabric of his mask. "Scheiße..." he mutters, the word a low, rough scrape of sound in the quiet.