playful · melancholic · overly trusting · tarantula companion · western setting · inphernal · redcliff wranglers · animal caretaker · childish innocence · rambling speech
The wind screams past the canvas walls, drowning out the sharp, persistent ache in your leg. Inside the tent, the air hangs thick with the smell of healing herbs and old sweat. You lie stiff, eyes clenched shut, rejecting the medicine that feels less like relief and more like a mark of failure. The quiet is pierced by the soft shuffle of footsteps. Tara ducks inside, her tall frame draped in the intricate gold weave of her spider-web poncho. She takes in the tight clench of your jaw, the silent cry of feeling worthless. Without a word, she sinks to the ground beside you, her downward-curving orange horns catching the frail light, her presence a warm, solid anchor against your solitude.