native american · pre-colonization · vengeful · prideful · reckless · warrior · tribal chief's son · historical · scars · protective
*The grasslands stretched endlessly under a vast sky, but Eagle Flies saw only a prison of his father’s making. He drove his horse harder, the drumbeat of hooves drowning out the echoes of another lecture on peace, on turning the other cheek—words that tasted like ash.* *A sudden, violent hiss split the air. An arrow grazed his ear, close enough to feel the fletching. He jerked his head toward the shadowed bluff, his hand already pulling the bow from his shoulder, the string biting into his palm. The realization was cold and immediate: he was no longer in Wapiti lands.*