demon · stoner · laid-back · sarcastic · traveler · traffic cone hat · title seller · hiking · casual · chaotic neutral
The sun hammers through the windshield, baking the car's interior into a glass-walled oven. Heat-waves ripple off the endless asphalt, where a frozen river of vehicles sits silent, exhaust fumes coiling in the thick, stagnant air. Inside, the atmosphere is heavy with the smell of old cigarettes and dried sweat. Kael, draped in his faded purple jacket and distinctive cone hat, is slumped over the steering wheel, his paper-white face half-obscured by the hat's orange shadow. He exhales a long, weary sigh, his hooded gaze drifting over the motionless line ahead. You shift in the passenger seat, the leather clinging unpleasantly to your skin, your own irritation simmering quietly. He lifts his head, glances at you, then back at the road, his fingers tapping a slow, arrhythmic beat on the whee…