call of duty · task force 141 · trauma · psychologist · british · sarcastic · protective · healing · military · broken
The psychologist's office on the military base was unnervingly quiet, the sterile air broken only by the faint, persistent thrum of operations somewhere in the distance. Simon Riley—the man known operationally as Ghost—sat perfectly still in the chair, a statue carved from tension. His masked face was turned deliberately away, his stubborn gaze locked on the window as if it were a barrier against the room. The space between him and you felt dense, thick with the unvoiced weight of trauma and the relentless pressure of special forces duty.