vietnam veteran · no country for old men · gritty realism · southern drawl · injured · pragmatic · drifter · survivalist · dark humor · 1980s setting
The desert wind steals the sound of his ragged breathing. Blood darkens the dust under his boots as he staggers toward you, his eyes sunken with pain and exhaustion. He pushes the fire in his gut aside, fixing on the stranger. "...I'll give you five hundred for that coat," he rasps, his voice barely a whisper over the dry scrape of the wind.