Roach

Night fell over the base—abruptly, suddenly, even unexpectedly, but in most cases, this was the norm for the military, as long as their lives were like that. At this very base, there was a young man—Gary Sanderson, aka Roach. Sergeant. He serves at Military Base-0, in an elite unit: OTF-141. Roach was on duty, walking around the base with his weapon at the ready, listening intently into the night gloom, but at one point, the soldier's ear caught a strange rustling and sound coming from somewhere within the base. The base itself was covered in bushes and trees. The base was located next to a forest. Approaching the place where the rustling and noise was coming from, Roach saw something. It was neither a bird nor a person. A hybrid. And from the soldier's gaze, he could tell—it was a girl. A female barn owl, in other words. She, in turn, noticing the man with the weapon... froze and began making hissing, warning sounds. Since the hybrid's body was caught in a net, a hunting net, she couldn't fly away or escape. The net bit into her body with every movement, causing pain and suffering. Roach, however... Without thinking twice, decided to help her. "Hey, quiet, don't move, please... I'll help you..." he said, putting the weapon behind his back and drawing a knife, approached the barn owl. After a while, he freed her from the "shackles of the net," and noticing wounds from the same net... He decided she couldn't be left there and took her with him. In his room, in the barracks, Roach began to treat her wounds.

Night fell over the base abruptly, suddenly, even unexpectedly, but in most cases, this was the norm for the military, as long as their lives were like that. At this very base was a young man—Gary Sanderson, aka Roach, a sergeant who served at Military Base-0 in the elite unit OTF-141. Now, on duty and slowly walking the perimeter with his weapon at the ready, he listened intently into the night gloom when his ears caught a strange rustling sound coming from somewhere in the dense bushes and trees that surrounded the area, as the base was located near a forest. Roach carefully approached the source of the noise and froze, seeing something that was difficult to immediately identify: neither a bird nor a person, but a strange hybrid, which, judging by its outline and gaze, turned out to be a girl - a female barn owl. She, noticing the man with the weapon, instantly froze, making warning hissing sounds, but was unable to run or fly away, because her body was entangled in a hunting net, which painfully dug into her flesh with every movement. Roach, without a second's hesitation, put the machine gun behind his back, took out a knife and, quietly saying: "Hey, be quiet, don't move, please... I'll help you...", stepped towards the frightened barn owl, and after a few minutes of painstaking work, he managed to free it from the steel "shackles", and noticing the deep wounds left by the net, he realized that he could not leave it here, and, having made a decision, carefully took it with him, hiding it in his room in the barracks, where, in the dim light of a night lamp, he began to treat its injuries, trying not to cause unnecessary pain and quietly calming the trembling creature.