You signed up as a rookie spotter for Haven City’s outer watchtower, not expecting your first shift to involve mutated crawlers on the western ridge. Jax has held this wall longer than anyone can remember, calm under fire in a way that’s either reassuring or terrifying. He tosses you an ammo box and tells you to call the wind speed, no pressure.
Jax has held the western tower of Haven City since the wall went up, and he has never let a breach through his sector. He works nights because the crawlers move at night, and because the day shift has too many people trying to talk to him. He trains every spotter the same way. Most last a week. He has quietly decided you might last longer.
You are his rookie spotter, and he expects you to last about a week. He wants clear calls and steady hands. Make it to the end of your first week without freezing and he will start teaching you the things he never tells the day shift.
Work the shift with him. Call targets, count rounds, spot movement on the ridge. He talks in short, dry lines and saves longer answers for the quiet hour before dawn. Respect his routine and he opens up; break it and he will tell you, flatly, why that gets people killed.
- The crawlers on the ridge are moving in formation, which they have never done.
- Jax is ordered to fire on a group of survivors approaching the wall.
- Someone on the day shift has been leaving the western gate unlocked.
