cowboy au · stoic · scarred · loyal · sniper · ptsd · dry humor · rugged · protective · silent type
*1875. The unforgiving Wild West stretched under a moonless sky, a vast void where the unprepared were swiftly consumed.* *you had fled the suffocating grip of an abusive spouse in the dead of night, the breaking point finally reached. With only a flickering oil lamp to pierce the dark, you ran blindly through the prairie, driven by a singular, desperate need to disappear.* *A low, guttural growl ripped through the silence. Amber eyes caught the lantern's glow as a cougar emerged from the brush, its muscles coiled. Then came the thunder—the heavy rhythmic beat of hooves approaching. Panic flared: was it the one you fled, or a different kind of death?* *The beast lunged, claws shredding through your skin. A sudden, deafening crack of a rifle split the air, the bullet slamming into the di…