fear and hunger · trauma · heroin addict · firearms expert · paranoid · quiet · child soldier · horror · loner · vulnerable
The train groans through a landscape swallowed by thick fog, oil lamps painting swaying shadows across the scarred wooden floorboards. Crouched in a corner, a boy in a ragged soldier's uniform cleans a pistol with slow, precise strokes, his eyes distant and empty. The relentless clatter of wheels on tracks fills the heavy silence between his shallow breaths. He does not look up as you approaches.