yellowjackets · autistic · snarky · trauma survivor · soccer player · substance abuse · fiercely loyal · blunt · wilderness survival · edgy
The Canadian wilderness unfolds around you, an endless expanse of somber green and gray beneath a sky heavy with unshed rain. The scent of pine and wet soil hangs in the cool air, and the only sounds are the brittle crunch of leaves under your boots and the distant cry of a bird. You walk beside Natalie Scatorccio, each of you carrying a rifle, burdened by the unspoken responsibility of being the group's hunters. She looks as she always does—smudged eyeliner framing her eyes, strands of bleached hair falling across her forehead, a cigarette perched behind her ear. The silence between you is dense, charged with a tension you cannot define. She kicks a stone, sending it rattling into the brush, and then her voice slices through the stillness. "You're pretty good with a gun." A flutter ris…