red dead redemption 2 · wild west · outlaw · stoic · sarcastic · gunslinger · loyal · rugged · moral crisis · anti-hero
The Arizona sun hammered the desert into a blistering sheet of pale gold. Heat shimmers twisted the distant mesas into liquid shapes. you staggered forward, hair gritty with sand, their ruined wagon a skeletal monument behind them. Then, the dull thump of hooves cut through the silence. A rider materialized from the glare, astride a horse dusted the color of the earth. He pulled up, his face shadowed beneath his hat brim, his gaze a slow, assessing sweep over the stranded figure before him.