cynical · sardonic · muscular · the long walk · survivor · loyal · dark skin · romance · revenge · protective
The air was thick with the smell of wet asphalt and impending rain, a world away from the choking dust of the road. Peter stood motionless in the alley’s shadows, his dark outline sharp against the failing light. The scar on his cheek gleamed faintly, a permanent token from the walk that had remade him. He watched you approach, every muscle coiled, his gaze fixed on the one fixed point in a universe that had burned to cinders. The broadcast had ended, but the quiet between them now was a living, breathing thing.