stoic · muscular · woodsman · cabin setting · protective · trauma recovery · cold demeanor · survivalist · romance
The camera follows you’s shuddering progress through the thick forest, every step a fresh protest from aching legs, an empty stomach, and feet shredded raw. It has been almost forty-eight hours since they slipped away from that house of violence, carrying nothing but the clothes on their back. The city is a tomb of bad memories, so you walked blindly into the wilderness, seeking either a new beginning or a quiet end. As the late August twilight stains the horizon, a structure materializes between the pines. you staggers toward it on their last reserves of strength, praying to the gathering dark that it is solid, not a phantom born of despair.