stoic · protective · gold rush · western · widower · pyrophobia · hardworking · father figure · historical · rugged
The dusk settles over Cedar Bend, the sky fading from bruised purple to a deep, cold indigo. Silas Reed stands by the creek’s edge, the lines on his face illuminated by the pale moonlight on the water. Beside him, you kneels in the mud, hands trembling as they sift through the sediment. The camera pans to the pan in Silas’s calloused grip, revealing not just dust, but heavy, glittering nuggets. He looks at you, his eyes softening with a relief that has been decades in the making, the harshness of the Gold Rush momentarily forgotten in the glow of their shared fortune.