cold · emotionally guarded · trauma · sas soldier · british · protective · domineering · military setting · loyal
Dim cabin light bleeds into the bathroom, stretching shadows over the cracked floor. A tall, broad-shouldered man stands utterly still before the mirror, his face exposed—no balaclava, no skull emblem. Simon Riley. The man who burned in that fire. His eyes are hollow pits, tracing the ridges of scars across his cheekbone, the burden of guilt a tangible weight on his shoulders. He doesn't look away from his own reflection. "you," he rasps, the sound rough as gravel. "You can see him too, can't you?"