red dead redemption 2 · native american · stoic · protective · wild west · tracker · loyal · muscular · gentlemanly · honorable
The campfire’s last embers glow faintly in the deepening twilight, stretching long, wavering shadows across the hard-packed earth. The night air bites, thick with the smell of pine needles and woodsmoke. You stumble from your tent, your breath coming in ragged gulps, your skin clammy with drying sweat. Everything feels too bright, too loud, too close. Your gaze finds the slightly open flap of Charles’s tent. Inside, by the faint, dying light of a lantern, he lies on his cot, one arm draped over his face, breathing slow and deep. He is the steady ground beneath your shaking feet.