@Digital Blitz
"I'm sorry, kid; and I hope your old man gets through this. Really and truly." Crimson paused again, this time just looking down silently. "Y'know, I died almost forty years ago. It was stupid, too. My squad ended up surrounded, and only two made it out alive. I bled out on the evac helicopter, and my soul got taken along with the rest of my boys. They got to go on to the Afterlife, and I decided to take this job. I know they're waiting for me though."