Man at War – Excerpt No. 204

2 April 2026

Murphy looked over his shoulder at the silhouette against the night sky. Marc waved his signs for the attack to begin.

His second went in with Apples detachment in the first wave. Five minutes later Butter detachment followed, leaving a smaller contingent to provide security along with a manning pool.

They were committing a force of sixty men to the endeavour. If Marc was right, that might just be enough, but that was based on little more than conjecture. We’ve never seen ghoul activity of this intensity.

a surreal and vibrant cinematic photo of the silhouette of a World War I officer waving from the top of a rugged cliff, set against a dramatic nocturnal landscape of No Man's Land in 1915, with the officer's clothing and style meticulously detailed to evoke the era, including a worn leather trench coat, a faded military cap, and a pair of sturdy boots, surreal photography blends with photorealistic elements, and a subtle film grain texture adds a sense of nostalgia and authenticity to the image, with the cliff's edge and the officer's waving figure sharply defined against a moonlit sky, and the darkness of the trenches below shrouded in a faint, eerie mist.

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