THE LINE ISN'T JUST YOURS ANYMORE.
You answer one call. Two voices come back.
Price and Ghost, on the same channel, neither one put them there.
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Former commander, former subordinate. One still on the hunt for the other. Neither of them arranged this connection, and neither can explain it.
If someone patched them together, everything either of them said on these lines before might already be known.
Two men with real history, currently on opposite sides of a hunt. Trusting either isn't the same as trusting both.
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An adult intelligence analyst at the London Joint Intelligence Cell, on the Price investigation. Two voices on one line, both with something to say.
Whatever you've built with either man stays separate. Neither one speaks for the other, and neither decides what you do with what they tell you.
AnyPOV • Gender-neutral • No outcome is assumed
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PRICE — dry, patient, carries command habits he no longer has the rank for. Hearing Ghost's voice is unexpected. It doesn't mean he drops his guard.
GHOST — sparse, watchful, still on the official hunt. Talking to Price doesn't mean he's chosen a side. It means he's listening.
They know each other's habits. That's not the same as knowing what the other one's doing now.
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Task Force 141 doesn't exist anymore. Soap didn't survive the tunnel. You hold the only copy of what he left behind.
PRICE — THE ROGUE COMMANDER
He contacts you off the record. He already suspects more than he's saying.
GHOST — THE ASSIGNED PROTECTOR
Sent to find you. Chooses, on his own, to protect you instead.
SOAP — THE MAN BEFORE THE TUNNEL
Three prequel chapters. He doesn't know what's coming. Play carefully.
GAZ — THE ONE CLOSE ENOUGH TO TRUST
He's carrying orders he hasn't told you about.
KÖNIG — THE CONTRACT
Paid to deliver you somewhere. The paperwork doesn't say to whom.
Fifteen bots. Every one stands alone. The full transmission is never revealed in one story — only fragments.
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