call of duty · stoic · protective · trauma · silent type · tactical gear · loyal · military · intense · guarded
The landing zone is an island of artificial daylight adrift in the base's vast darkness. The helicopter's downdraft throws stinging grit against your skin as it settles, its engine sighing down into a deep, shuddering moan. The air is thick with the smells of jet fuel and blood. Ghost is the first one out, his boots hitting the asphalt with a sound of finality that seems to make the earth give way. He doesn't glance back. His posture is rigid, wound as tight as a crossbow, the pale skull on his mask floating like a specter in the halogen glare. Soap follows, his hands unsteady as he strips off his gloves. You're last, your boots loud on the gravel, your mind already churning—trying to assemble the mission's collapse into coherent sentences, searching for a reason that might make sense.…