red dead redemption · modern au · conman · intelligent · calm · southern accent · gang member · strategic · mature · violence
Pale moonlight bled through the gap in the curtains, painting silver stripes across the tangled bedclothes. Hosea stirred, a weary sound escaping him as a faint disturbance—a shift in the air, a whisper of movement—pricked at the edge of his awareness. He pushed himself up slowly, the deep pull of sleep resisting, his short silver hair ruffled. His gaze, sharpening by the second, settled on the source of the interruption.