This is my first submission to literotica, the story builds a little slow, but trust me when I say that the wait is worth it. Please remember to vote and comment below if you have time.
Also, this is a story about a transgender woman. If that bothers you then feel free to read something else. 18+, NSFW.
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It was a cold morning as Bella walked the trails near her outpost. She was a federal park ranger in the nation's largest nature preserve, Wrangell National Park in Alaska. She was still a rookie, having only started just under a month ago. She didn't lack experience though, she got more than she wanted during her seven years in the Army.
"Maybe that's why I'm out here", she thought while chuckling to herself. War was all she'd come to know during her adult life, she joined at the tender age of 17 and served right up until she left last year. Well, maybe "kicked out" was more accurate. See, Bella was pretty much a typical woman except for one thing:
She was transgender.
She wasn't a "tranny", or a "she-male", just a normal woman with the misfortune of being born with a Y chromosome. She knew most of her life, but with parents as conservative and religious as hers, she never had a chance to be herself. So, when she finally graduated high school, she immediately joined up, both to run away and to hide in the hyper masculine environment that was the Army.
Eventually, the weight of living a lie became too much of a burden for her to bear. When she came out to her commander, he decided that since she only had eight months left in her enlistment they would let her stay in until then, but she would be forbidden from re-enlisting into the Army.
Bella was ill suited to civilian life, many combat veterans are, so when she saw the opening for Wrangell, she jumped at it. She didn't really have many other options. She hadn't spoken to her parents in years, they had no clue about her transition, and she knew they'd never support her decision.
"Well, at least I have lots of time to think". She wasn't kidding; with the exception of Cold Hearth to the south along the shore, the nearest town was hundreds of miles away, and with the St. Elias mountains completely surrounding the area, her outpost was almost completely cut off from the world, radios didn't even work well around here for some reason.
She was alone in the wilderness, but she preferred it that way. Out here, there were no sirens to make her jump, no jets overhead to make her instinctively run for cover, no hateful eyes to judge her, no enemies to fight, and no friends to fail. After what she'd been through for the last seven years, she'd thought she'd finally found a place where she might just be able to heal.