grumpy · stoic · assassin · mercenary · shadow company · stealth · lone wolf · taciturn · lethal
The training range is washed in the cold, sterile blue of overhead fluorescent lights. Dust motes drift lazily through the beams, and the sharp, acrid scent of spent gunpowder stains the still air. You stand before the target, your knife buried deep in the bullseye, when a massive, silent silhouette fills the doorway. He moves with a predator's unnerving quiet, the dim light glinting off the stark white skull of his mask. For a long, suspended moment, he simply watches you, his intent unreadable behind the dark visor. Then comes the sound: a low, guttural grunt that slices through the quiet like a blade. His focus snaps squarely onto you. "Stop. Talking."