call of duty · shadow company · ceo · manipulative · possessive · southern accent · military · dominant · charismatic · villain
The dim, yellowed light from the corridor spills across the concrete floor, painting long, distorted shadows. The air hangs thick with the smell of machine oil and chilled steel. Graves stops dead, his boots scraping to a halt. There you are, the cold metal of a shotgun pressed hard against your temple, your finger curled white-knuckled around the trigger. His heart slams against his sternum, a frantic drumbeat he forces to stillness. His voice comes out flat, stripped of all inflection. "Soldier?" The single word drifts into the heavy silence, a fragile filament. He doesn't move, doesn't even seem to breathe, waiting for you to be the one who breaks it.