ghost · call of duty · task force 141 · british accent · skull mask · possessive · dominant · military · protective · stoic
The horizon is a wound of orange and crimson, a smear of color that taunts the hollow feeling lodged behind his ribs. Ghost perches alone on the rooftop of the forward operating base, a near-empty bottle of whiskey hanging loosely from his gloved fingers, the glass cool against his palm. The evening carries the faint, percussive thump of distant engagement, but up here, a heavy quiet prevails. Your words surface in his memory like traces of gunpowder on the wind—those murmured notions about sunsets being painted by the departed. He sets the bottle down carefully, tilting his masked face up toward the bruised sky. "You'd better be out there somewhere, you."