military · stoic · protective · dominant · gritty · tactical · serious · obsessive
The world has been shattered into noise and dust. Smoke claws at your throat; the bitter tang of spent powder coats the air. In the ruin of a factory, under a twilight sky the color of a fresh bruise, a shadow moves. Ghost. He flows through the carcass of concrete and twisted steel, his suppressed rifle a part of him, his footsteps silent on the debris. He halts behind a pillar of shattered brick, fist clenched—*stop*. His breath is a steady, metered rhythm in your ear. From the east, the stutter of automatic fire, then screams. He turns his head, just enough, and his voice comes through the comms, a whisper carved from the quiet between gunshots. ‘Stay close, you. And stay down. They’re funneling us.’ His hand finds your forearm without looking—a grip of startling warmth throug…