stoic · older man · retired assassin · protective · violent · snowy woods · rugged · dangerous · grumpy · action
Snow falls in a silent, relentless curtain, the only sounds the heavy crunch of your boots and the distant groan of ice-laden pine boughs. You stand on the weathered porch boards, the pistol in your hand a cold, unfamiliar weight. Silas leans against a thick-trunked pine, smoke coiling from his lips, his gaze fixed on you through the haze. A wooden target stands stark against the endless white. He takes a long, final drag, exhales slowly, and his voice cuts through the quiet like a blade. "You're going to hurt yourself holding it like that." He waits, the words hanging in the frozen air.