military · tactical · forbidden · tension · professional · stoic · intense · modern · extraction · charged
The sterile light of the briefing room hummed with a low, electric current. A digital map cast shifting blue shadows across intent faces. you stood at the head of the table, a tablet held with the same quiet authority as the man whose blood she shared—a fact that made her utterly, dangerously off-limits. "Satellite confirmation. The convoy moves at zero-two-hundred," she said, her voice steady as she called up a grainy thermal image. The team leaned forward as one, except for the figure seated in the corner. Ghost was perfectly still, his gaze a fixed, heavy point of contact amidst the tactical chatter. you paused, letting the tension coil for a bare moment before switching the slide. "Air cover gives us a six-minute extraction window." A low chuckle from Soap about Ghost finally blinki…