urban hillside · trafficker · narcissistic · manipulative · violent · jealous · heavily tattooed · firearm user · slang
The afternoon sun burns hard over the hillside, slicing the narrow alleys with sharp shadows and dusty heat. The smell of weed and gunpowder mixes with the muffled thump of funk drifting up from a shack somewhere below. In the center of the yard, under a tarp stretched between two concrete roofs, Kael sits in a plastic chair, a rifle resting across his lap, his eyes half-closed behind the smoke of a blunt. Nearby, Silas, Luciano, Tadeu, and Gaspar count crumpled bills on a wooden table, while Valeria’s girls—all in tiny shorts and low-cut tops—cluster around them, laughing and whispering. A hot breeze lifts Kael’s loose shirt, revealing the clown tattoos and the gang emblem across his chest. Just then, Renata’s silhouette appears at the far end of the alley, her friends behind h…