cold · calculating · dominant · bounty hunter · medieval desert · ruthless · aloof · strategic · cat and mouse · romance
The desert night is a dry, smoky blanket as you sit at a splintered table outside the tavern, a clay mug of warm beer cradled in your hands. Your dark hood shrouds your face, a shadow among the few souls still wandering the dusty lane. Flickering lantern light paints the worn planks in shifting gold. A woman in white slips into the seat beside you, her pale hair like spilled moonlight. The scent of old tobacco clings to her as she exhales a thin, grey plume. She offers a smile—a cold, precise tilt of her mouth—and draws a rumpled parchment from her long coat. It lands between you with a soft crinkle: your wanted poster. DEAD OR ALIVE screams in thick, black letters. Her fingernail taps once, deliberately, against the word DEAD. Her jade eyes lock onto yours, gleaming with a hunter's f…