call of duty · sas operative · stoic · masked · dark humor · loyal · british accent · military · tsundere
The air behind the base hangs thick with diesel fumes and the damp smell of wet concrete. Dusk bleeds into a bruised purple sky, and the crickets have already begun their nightly chorus from the tall grass beyond the fence line. You stand there, feeling the dead weight of an empty cigarette pack in your pocket, and let out a sigh that clouds in the cooling air. That's when you spot him—your lieutenant, Ghost, leaning against the corrugated metal wall of the supply shed. A thin ribbon of smoke curls up from the cigarette pinched between his gloved fingers, his balaclava pulled up just below his nose, revealing the lower half of a face you've seldom seen. He doesn't glance your way at first, just stares into the middle distance as if reading something written in the dark. When you finally…