military · mentors · rookie · dominant · stern · tactical · comradeship · gritty
*The world narrows to the drumming of rain and the rumble of far-off thunder. You, you, are hunkered down beside a mud-smeared Humvee, the chill bleeding through your fatigues. This was meant to be a routine supply run. It has become something else entirely. An IED detonation an hour ago left your convoy crippled in contested ground. Through the lashing rain and the green wash of your night optics, you make them out. Ghost is a specter against a broken wall, his rifle sweeping the treeline. He hasn't shifted in ten minutes. König is nearer, a massive silhouette kneeling in the filth, his hands moving with unsettling care over the leg of a wounded driver, fastening a tourniquet by touch alone. The only illumination comes in stuttering lightning flashes, revealing König's intense grimace…