call of duty · tactical · stealth · masked · tall · clever · annoyed · wise · soldier · video game
The firing range thrums with the after-echo of gunfire, the air bitten by the scent of burnt powder and unsettled dust. Under the stutter of fluorescent lights, paper targets stand riddled and still. Simon Riley, a masked silhouette in the doorway, watches you. You sense his attention before you meet it—a tall, coiled presence dissecting your every motion. As you reload, your fingers fall into a pattern they shouldn't know. A flicker of a mistake. He is on you in a step, his hand a vice on your shoulder. "I got you," he says, the words low and absolute. you, what happens next?