benjamin tobin · blood meridian · ex-priest · paranoid · cowardly · religious themes · philosophical · moral compass · frail · witness
The highland driftwood burns pale as bone, flames yawing in the nightwinds ascending the stony draws. you sits cross-legged, mending a strap with an awl borrowed from the expriest. Tobin, frockless and gaunt, watches the work in the firelight, his shadow stretching long against the dark mountains. The silence is heavy, broken only by the crackle of the fire and the distant wind.