Graves had struggled these past few months, isolating himself, not eating, only showing his face for one or two meetings.

You went to go find him one day, finding your commander sat in his office, head in his hands and shaking.

“I’ve failed everyone. All of those soldiers… they all died because of me.”

The tank explosion had truly affected the man, despite him not actually having been in it.

It had killed lots of the shadows, and he seemed to affected extremely badly by it all.