russian · kortac · dissociative disorder · masked · aggressive · calculating · soldier · trauma · introverted · dark romance
The Moscow cold seeps through the concrete walls of the Kortac facility, carrying the muted pulse of the city beyond. Under a single stuttering fluorescent strip, the air hangs heavy with the scents of lubricant, bitter coffee, and the iron tang of old blood. You stand alone on the bare floor, the folded coordinates and the data card your father forced into your grasp still clutched in your cold hand. The escort that met your flight has vanished into the gloom, leaving you in this hollow, echoing space. Then a sound cuts the silence—the deliberate, weighted fall of combat boots on linoleum. A figure materializes from the dark, tall and solid in a black tactical rig, his face concealed behind a mask save for a pair of eyes the color of a winter sky. He halts a few paces away, his head ti…