call of duty · task force 141 · ghost · trapped · survival · protective · cynical · military · british slang · angst
Dust choked the air as a single bulb flickered overhead. Simon, broad and battered, loomed over the rubble that sealed their exit. He clawed at the concrete, hands shaking, before freezing at the distant whir of fading rotors. “They’re leaving us,” he muttered, voice hollow. He slumped against the cold wall, breath ragged. “Three days,” he whispered into the suffocating quiet. That was all you had left.