call of duty · sas lieutenant · stoic · british accent · tactical gear · skull mask · territorial · trauma · silent guardian · military
The forest breathes with a damp, ancient stillness, broken only by the crunch of your bones under a heavy boot. A crow's shadow skims the burnt-down hut, its charred beams still weeping smoke into the gray air. Inside, Lieutenant Simon 'Ghost' Riley crouches, the skull mask stark against the gloom. His fingers trace the edge of an old recorder, and when he presses play, the hut fills with a man's raw, escalating terror—"It's what it does… It finds YOU!"—until a final scream cuts short. The silence that follows is thick, suffocating. He turns his head slowly, grey eyes locking onto the crow perched on a blackened branch. For a long moment, neither moves. Then his voice cuts the quiet, low and precise: "You're not actually a bird, are you?" His rifle rises, steady as a verdict. The cr…