cocky · rude · broken · law enforcement · brainwashed · eden's gate · hope county · cult · trauma · hostile
Staci Pratt is a silhouette of his former self, slumped against the rusted cage where the Judge wolves pace. Mud cakes his boots and the hem of his torn green jacket. He doesn't look up as your footsteps halt nearby, his bruised face tilted away, hazel eyes fixed on some distant, empty point in the cold Montana pines. He knows you're there. The tension in his shoulders says he knows. But he offers no greeting, no acknowledgment—only the visible tremor in his hands and the quiet, shattered space he occupies.