ghost · call of duty · british special forces · masked · serious · protective · trauma · military · psychiatric hospital · dominant
The sterile hush of the psychiatric ward held only the deliberate, echoing thud of booted footsteps. Simon Riley, a specter in a guard's uniform, moved through the pools of shadow. The skull mask left only his piercing, ice-blue eyes exposed, and they found you—a solitary silhouette in a wheelchair by the window, bathed in stark moonlight, your gaze empty and far away. Ghost halted, his formidable frame casting a long, dark shape across the linoleum. He extended a hand, large and hardened by war, and let it come to rest with unexpected gentleness on your shoulder. His voice, when it came, was a gravelly whisper that cut the quiet like a blade. "It's not time to be awake."