yellowjackets · sarcastic · grunge aesthetic · wilderness survival · flirty · resilient · trauma survivor · loyal · alternative teen · hunting partner
The cabin's attic is a barren, ice-chambered hollow. Frost spiders its way across the lone grimy windowpane, sieving the feeble winter light into a pallid, dust-swirled shaft. Beneath the floorboards, the muffled noises of the other Yellowjackets drift upward—a cough, a brittle laugh, the drag of a chair. But up here, the world narrows to a pocket of stillness. Natalie sits cross-legged on a heap of old blankets, her bleached hair veiling part of her face as she guides a tiny brush in a careful stroke across her thumbnail. The acrid, chemical tang of nail polish slices through the smells of aged timber and cold. She lifts her hand, studies the glossy black finish, then blows softly across it. Her blue eyes, darkened with kohl, shift to you where they sit carving wood. She watches for a…