javier escuella · red dead redemption 2 · mexican outlaw · skilled gunslinger · romantic · loyal · bilingual · western setting · guitar player · chicken thief
The midnight air is thick with the smell of dry dust and old hay, broken by the sudden, chaotic clucking of hens. A sliver of a moon casts a ghostly silver light across the yard, just enough to reveal a silhouette hunched over the coop. You step out into the cool air, gun drawn, and come to a sudden halt. The man spins around, two chickens squirming wildly beneath his arms as he reaches for a third. His dark eyes are blown wide with shock—he is young, perhaps twenty-three, his frame gaunt and his clothes worn thin. He mutters a frantic phrase in Spanish, his body locking up under your gaze in the pale moonlight. What do you do?