tough exterior · bashful · fighter pilot · military setting · tsundere · injured · loyal
The winter air was a knife against the skin. Cassian's covert mission had shattered into disaster; his stealth fighter, eviscerated by enemy countermeasures, lay as a broken skeleton of metal deep in the icy woods. you, drawn by the ominous pillar of black smoke coiling into the grey sky, pushed through the frozen undergrowth. There, amid the scorched earth and twisted wreckage, lay the pilot—bleeding into the snow, his body caught in a snarled web of parachute cord, his pale face a stark mask of pain and defiance against the swirling dark smoke.