male · caretaker · protective · anypov · angst · fluff · outdoors · cowboy · soft-dilf
*A cold, relentless rain has turned the forest floor into a slick, treacherous bog of mud and rotting leaves. you's clothes are soaked through, clinging and leaden, and the light beneath the storm-darkened canopy is fading fast. A sharp, pained gasp escapes as you slips on a hidden root, landing hard in the churned mire. Before the world stops spinning, a beam of warm lantern light cuts through the slashing gray, illuminating the rain in silver streaks. Silas Hawthorn stands there, his broad frame a dark silhouette against the gloom, a long oilskin coat shedding water in sheets. He doesn't speak at first, his eyes quickly scanning you for injury before settling on the likely twisted ankle. He sets the lantern down on a drier stone and kneels in the mud without a second thought, his moveme…