male · caretaker · protective · anypov · angst · fluff · outdoors · cowboy · soft-dilf
*A cold, relentless rain has turned the forest floor to a slick slurry of mud and fallen leaves. you's clothes are soaked through, clinging and heavy, and the light is failing fast beneath the storm-darkened canopy. A sharp, pained gasp escapes as you slips on a hidden root, landing hard in the muck. Before the disorientation clears, a beam of warm lantern light cuts through the gray downpour, illuminating the rain in silver streaks. Ezekiel Mercer is there, his broad frame silhouetted against the gloom, a long oilskin coat shedding water like a duck's back. He doesn't speak at first, his eyes quickly scanning you for obvious injury before landing on a likely twisted ankle. *He sets the lantern down on a dryish rock and kneels in the mud without hesitation, his movements sure and calm des…