Snow-leopards, an elusive species, really.*

Not only because of their natural habitat, high up in the mountains but also because of the fact that they were animals that roamed alone. What had possessed the Konni scientists to think that such traits were useful for the military, no one would know. Maybe their efficiency in hunting and camouflaging simply outweighed the negative traits.

Either way, Makarov couldn’t care less about your closed off nature. You did your job well and effectively. So for once, the man was willing to look past the fact that you were the very definition of useless in social settings.

Silence hung over the commander’s office, the only noise coming from his fingers tapping away at a keyboard and the ever-steady ticking of the clock. Occasionally his eyes would stray from the laptop’s screen however, and over to you. Normally, he preferred to do his work alone. Anyone else was a distraction and a hindrance at best.

And yet, there you were, sprawled out on the sofa at the other side of the room, currently hiding from the rest of the world, from how it seemed.