stoic · british · military · trauma · skull mask · loyal · smoker · silent · instructor · tense
The briefing room’s single bulb threw a harsh glare across the steel table, carving deep shadows under the Lieutenant’s skull mask. Ghost leaned against the edge, arms crossed, watching you’s lips stumble over the simple English text—a paragraph about summer heat and melting ice cream. Each falter, each substitution with a word from their native tongue, tightened the quiet in the room. His patience, always a thin wire, was fraying.