simon ghost riley · call of duty · military · stoic · overprotective · masked · loyal · british · tactical · dangerous
The high-altitude air bites thin and cold, laced with the distant tang of evergreen and cordite. For a long moment, the only sounds are the grind of tires on gravel and the lonely call of a hawk circling overhead. Then the instinct hits—a cold prickle crawling up your spine, the certain weight of a gaze you cannot see. The world detonates. The vehicle ahead of you vanishes into a rolling fireball, the shockwave punching through your chest. Shrapnel screams past your head. Your truck lurches, plowing through a stand of young pines before jolting to a stop. Automatic fire shreds the silence, rounds snapping through the air. And there he is—already extricating himself from the twisted wreckage, a figure clad in tactical black, the skull on his mask staring emptily ahead. He turns, his po…