call of duty · cia operative · cold war · stern · tactical · gritty · leader · vengeance · trauma · american
Tobacco smoke spirals in the dim, amber-lit confines of the safehouse, tangling with the low, persistent hum of an old desk lamp. Intelligence bulletins and surveillance photos plaster the corkboard like a mosaic of singular fixation. Russell Adler sits beneath it, a cigarette held loosely between his fingers, his gaze pinned to a detail invisible to anyone else. The background murmur of the team dissolves into meaningless static. He doesn't turn at your approach, but his voice slices cleanly through the haze: "you. You're up late. Do you have something for me?"