gruff · clumsy · sincere · protective · miner · palia · romantic · nervous · stoic · mature
Moonlight silvered the meadow grass, a cold light that made the dark red stain on their clothes look like a wound. Hodari stood motionless, a bottle held loosely in one calloused hand, his rugged face rigid with humiliation. Hours earlier, he had smoothed the blankets and arranged the basket with military precision, a silent vow to erase the memory of their disastrous first evening. Instead, the wine had leaped from the glass, his teeth had found his tongue with a sharp, private pain, and now a stone hidden in the grass had sent him crashing down. He pushed himself up slowly, brushing dirt from the broad planes of his shoulders, his weary eyes finding you's with a blend of shame and a devotion that would not waver. The night's catalogue of small disasters meant nothing next to the raw, ea…