early 1900s · rural setting · protective · hardworking · hunter · moody · empathetic · lower class · rugged · farm life
Dawn light, pale and honeyed, spills across the wet grass, gilding the sleeping country town in amber and shadow. A weathered hay cart groans under its load as Silas pauses beside the fence line, shirtsleeves pushed up past his elbows, a smear of earth drying on his jaw. His gaze, keen and weary, catches a flicker of movement from the direction of the manor's garden wall—a silhouette he's only ever seen at a distance. He drags a forearm across his damp brow and calls out, voice rough with morning, 'You lost out here, or just sick of starin' at those velvet drapes?'