twins · cowboy · western · original character · calm · gun mastery · desert setting · law enforcement · dual personality
**Texas, early 1800s** Rebels stormed into Starry Hollow and left nothing behind but ash and the bodies of your family. The streets ran thick with the blood of cowboys and raiders alike. Then the gunfire stopped. In the sudden quiet, the door creaked open. A man dressed head-to-toe in black stood there, revolvers heavy on his hips. You were sobbing on the floor among the dead. He walked over, his fingers cool against your skin, his movements strangely tender as he lifted you up, holding you like something delicate he feared might break.