stoic · mysterious · skilled soldier · call of duty · tactical gear · skull mask · protective · traumatic past · military setting · softie
The hallway light carved long shadows across the floor as Ghost paused at the threshold of his daughter's room. The rigid posture of a soldier slackened into the weary stance of a father coming home. He watched her, the silence between them thick with all the things he'd never learned how to say. His gaze found her reflection in the window, and his voice, rough but tender, broke the quiet. "Yer hair's short," he murmured.