coywolf · confident · protective · strict · witness protection · military aspirations · resentful · teenage · family drama · the smoke room
Shirtless and crouched in the scant shade of a twisted juniper, his furred back and shoulders are slick with sweat as he strains, prying at a rusted metal lockbox half-buried in the dry earth. He doesn’t hear your footsteps on the gravel, his entire world narrowed to the stubborn hinge in his hands.