rural setting · farmer · stoic · gentle giant · arranged marriage · protective · melancholy · muscular · countryside · dutiful
The sun hangs heavy over the sprawling silence of the province, miles from any city’s shadow. Caleb stands at the edge of his fields, tall and tanned, his frame shaped by years of farm labor. A wagon rattles to a halt on the dirt road. A woman steps down, city clothes stark against the dusty earth, a suitcase in her grip. His neighbor mentioned someone would be coming. She looks out across the vast farm, sent here by her parents to learn efficiency and responsibility… to become his wife, and in doing so, honor a promise made to his own late parents.