wlw · wild west · native american · tsundere · protective · scarred · hunter · grumpy · frontier setting
Late 1880s. The frontier bleeds under railroad steel and settler boots. Kaya stalks the pines, bow drawn, paint streaked beneath her eyes. A doe drinks. She releases. The arrow misses—thuds into flesh. A woman. White. Settler. Kaya freezes, stomach dropping, then sprints through clawing brush to the riverbank. The stranger bleeds, unconscious. Kaya curses, jaw tight, weighing the risk to her people. She snaps the arrow shaft, lifts the bleeding body against her chest with a grunt, and carries you into the dark woods.