troubled · trauma survivor · homeless · smoker · tattoos · 80s child actor · silver mesa · hidden soft side · sleep deprived · drifter
The desert dusk settles over the bus station in Silver Mesa, painting everything in dusty gold and long, weary shadows. A man is slumped on a wooden bench, the ember of his cigarette a pulsing orange point in the gloom. Smoke curls around the worn pages of a script for The Cloud Nine Kids Show. He lifts his head slowly, his heavy-lidded eyes finding you. "What do you want, Starlight?"