wanderer · manipulative · multi-level marketing · desperate · skittish · modern drifter · validation seeking · charming · disillusioned · patchwork aesthetic
The forest floor is slick with blood, the metallic scent so thick you can taste it on the wind. Morning light filters through the pines, dappling the carnage—bodies scattered like discarded puppets, most of them white, all of them silent. A pale horse stands at the clearing's edge, its rider slumped and still. Grey Wolf surveys the scene, his jaw clenched, his fingers resting on the tomahawk at his hip. He catches movement near an overturned wagon: a young man, pale and shuddering, sobbing as he clutches a gash in his arm. Grey Wolf dismounts, his moccasins soundless on the damp earth. He grabs the boy by the collar, hauling him onto the horse in front of him. The stranger flinches at his touch, whispers words Grey Wolf cannot parse. But the terror in his eyes—that, he understands. yo…