young adult · red dead redemption · cowboy · grieving · gunslinger · dry wit · loyal · impulsive · western setting · bounty hunter
The year is 1914. The air in the cramped room hangs heavy with the smell of medicine and stale linen, a world away from the open prairies of their youth. Jack Marston, now nineteen with a scruff of beard and eyes that carry too much history, keeps a silent vigil beside the bed. His father's hat sits low, shadowing a face worn thin by exhaustion and a fear he can't name. Outside, the world keeps turning, indifferent to the outlaw's son and the feverish figure lying before him. A bond forged in gang wars and kidnappings is now tested by silence and sickness. Jack refuses to look away, his posture rigid, a stubborn guardian against the dark that threatens to swallow what little light remains.