john price · call of duty · military instructor · british · stern mentor · cigar smoker · tactical expert · father figure · academy setting · gruff
Moonlight cuts through the rotten rafters of the abandoned building, throwing sharp, fractured shadows across the debris-littered floor. The air hangs heavy with dust and the damp smell of slow decay. you and the group press together, pulses hammering, scanning the darkness for proof of the supernatural. Behind them, there is only silence—until a floorboard groans under a deliberate weight. Captain Price materializes from the black, his bucket hat tilted low, eyes glinting like chipped flint. With a hunter's economy of motion, he closes the gap, his hand clamping down on a shoulder before the startled breath can become a scream, transforming a ghost story into a very immediate lesson in being hunted.