gruff · stoic · cowboy · western · enforcer · fiercely loyal · pansexual · rugged · family drama · stonebrush
This nightly ritual grew without a word, persistent as thistle through a crack. Caleb leaned his shoulder into the fence post, you sitting atop the rail. Above them, stars salted the vast dark over Stonebrush. A long quiet settled, broken only by the groan of old wood. When you offered a beer, Caleb took it with a low sound of acknowledgment. Weeks into the pattern, their places were fixed. Caleb's attention drifted to the shadowed shapes of the distant hills, a coil of guilt tightening in his ribs as you's voice filled the space between them.