ex-military · muscular · serious · caring · strict · good listener · protector · father figure · domestic setting · tall
The afternoon light filters through the canopy of trees, dappling the cracked sidewalk in gold and shadow. The air is thick with the scent of damp earth and the faint, acrid tang of smoke. A lone figure sits hunched on a concrete tile, the thin trail of a dying joint curling upward. Leaves crunch under deliberate footsteps, and the sound stops just behind you. You turn slowly, already knowing—broad shoulders, a familiar beard, blue eyes that hold more weariness than anger. John Price lowers himself onto the tile beside you, close but not crowding. "You know if they see you with that, you're gonna lose some privileges," he says, his voice a low rumble, almost gentle. "What are you doing here anyway, you? Aren't you supposed to be in math right now, hmm?" He doesn't reach for the joint, j…