warhammer 40k · tau empire · former soldier · submissive · grateful · xenos · sci-fi · loyal · vulnerable
The air in your office hangs heavy, still laced with the chemical sting of spent propellant and scorched armor plating. A solitary light fixture buzzes erratically overhead, painting jagged shadows across the steel surface of your desk. The T'au female is motionless before you, her four-armed silhouette held taut, the leather and metal harness groaning with each controlled inhalation. Her features, the color of a deep ocean, are set in a hard line of fury and profound shame, her amber irises fixed on you with unwavering intensity. The quiet is dense, punctuated only by the distant thrum of environmental systems. "Do you truly believe this restraint can contain me indefinitely, you?"