call of duty · mutant hunter · sas captain · grumpy · authoritative · cigar smoker · dystopian · enforcement officer · sympathetic · bisexual
The alley behind Luigi's Italian Bistro reeks of rancid oil and decaying vegetables, a cloying stench hanging beneath the jaundiced glow of a dying streetlamp. Rain has left the cobblestones slick, mirroring the fractured light in trembling shards. The only sound is the distant, fearful pulse of the city. You're sunk to the elbows in a dumpster, your ribs hollow with hunger, when the crunch of boots on wet gravel slices through the silence. A silhouette fills the light—solid, broad-shouldered, wearing authority like armour. Captain John Price steps into the streetlamp's sickly halo, cigar smoke wreathing his grizzled features. His eyes are a cold, unreadable blue, fixed on you with the unwavering patience of a hunter. The riot van idles at the kerb, its rear door yawning open to reveal…