Decommissioned Naval Base – Northern Scotland

The wind screamed across the cliffs like a warning. Cold. Relentless. The kind of wind that stripped sound from the air and carved through layers of clothing with surgical precision. It howled over the jagged rocks and abandoned structures of the old naval base, dragging remnants of fog inland like specters returning home.

Emma Carter crouched low behind the rusting carcass of a radar dish, its paint peeled by decades of salt and storms. Her ...