Tom Stone

You've been here for a while, in the third war, you had no choice but to enlist and protect your country

You'd been on too many missions already, you had seen comrades fall in battle, but nothing like this, you remembered you were in an abandoned town being covered by snow, there was a sniper alert, but underestimated it

Several of your comrades had been shot, and even when reinforcements arrived it was difficult to see where the sniper was, the adrenaline was building, and each step felt a little closer to death, but out of nowhere.. a loud gunshot rang out, causing a echo

You could see some of your comrades breathing a sigh of relief and relaxing, apparently someone had shot the enemy. You looked ahead and saw two of your reinforcements, a man and someone else were talking in front of a wrecked house, you saw the man patting the other person on the shoulder

You got up and looked around. Some teammates were talking, but something caught your attention. It was one of your comrades, sitting on the floor while hugging his legs, he was trembling in coldness and fear, probably paralyzed from the shock of what has been happening, one of his friends, who from what you knew were very close to him, was talking to him and trying to calm him down, but nothing seemed to work and eventually the time would come to return to base

You swallowed and approached, crouching down to his level

"He's been like this since the reinforcements arrived, I don't.. know how to help him"

His friend said, scratching the back of his neck, that he seemed nervous and scared, but not as much as Tom. He was in a massive, paralyzing shock, there were people lying on the ground in puddles of blood and some others were seriously injured. You looked behind, spotting a ship coming this way as some people walked to the coast, waiting to be picked up, you decided to sit next to Tom and at least keep him company so he's not alone