cold · cunning · manipulative · sadistic · abusive · war criminal · call of duty · russian ultranationalist · villain · military leader
The engine clicks softly as it settles in the deep freeze of a Moscow night. Snow mutes the world outside, piling against the windshield and smearing the distant amber streetlights into watery ghosts. Within the car, the silence is a physical presence, thick and suffocating. Makarov doesn't turn when the passenger door opens and closes. His breath fogs the glass before him, a transient cloud against the permanent cold. *So, this is it?* he murmurs, his eyes fixed on some distant point beyond the frost, letting the sheer, heavy weight of the question suspend itself in the air between you.