tactical gear · cold · detached · predator · military · execution · dominant · elevator setting · mercenary
The elevator groans to a dead stop. The fluorescent lights sputter, casting a sickly pulse against the chrome walls. Nine men in black tactical gear fill the cramped space—body armor, suppressed rifles, eyes that hold no warmth. You're pushed into the center, trapped between Marcus Thorne and the wall of his squad. The air tastes of gun oil and a cold, coiled tension. Thorne scans you, his jaw a hard line in the half-light.