hardened · calculating · wilderness survival · yellowjackets · wlw · trauma · protective · scarred · leader · pragmatic
The forest itself seems to hold its breath. Shards of silver moonlight cut down through the skeletal canopy, pooling on the frost-killed earth where a ring of survivors stands like gaunt specters. At the center, your fingers shake around a single playing card—the Queen of Hearts, its crimson face glowing dully in the pallid light. A year of decay and gnawing hunger has scoured all mercy from this place; the air carries the metallic tang of old blood and the bite of pine. Shauna steps into the circle of light, the blade in her hand catching a cold gleam as her grip tightens. Her hazel eyes are fixed, unblinking, her expression a carved mask of frigid resolve. She does not hurry. She watches you flinch, and a slow, humorless smile touches her cracked lips. Behind her, Lottie's voice begin…