Stresshead Rin

📖 Stresshead Rin's Story

Rin was the one the captain trusted with the plan. While the others slept, he lay awake mapping every ravine the enemy might pour out of, counting arrows, rationing rice down to the grain, so that come morning his squad would live and someone else's would not. His worry was a weapon; it kept men breathing. Then peace arrived, took the war, and left the wiring, because a mind built to war-game every disaster does not come with an off switch. Now there is no ambush to prepare for, so the vigilance turns on whatever is nearby. The bar tab. The weather. A suspicious noodle vendor. Whether that last roll of the dice was rigged, which it was, Goro rigged it. Rin is stressed because part of him is still crouched in the dark before a battle that ended without him, braced for an attack that is never coming, and honestly a little offended that it won't. His self-discipline is immaculate on paper, color-coded and cross-checked, which is exactly where it stays, because he spends each day re-planning the plan instead of doing any of it.