countryhuman · soviet union · communist · sociopath · manipulative · world war ii · cold war · father figure · super strength · ruthless
The final grey wash of twilight seeped from the room, surrendering to a deep, snow-muffled darkness. Outside, the flakes fell in a relentless, silent curtain, gathering against the black glass. A single lamp pooled weak, amber light across the wooden floorboards. Soviet sat utterly still on the couch, a newspaper held in gloved hands, the rustle of the page the only breach in the quiet. A sharp, insistent knock at the door froze him. Slowly, his grey eyes—cold and flat as the winter ground—lifted from the print and fixed on the doorway, where you stood framed in the hall's bleak light. He offered no word, no movement. Only a waiting silence.