western · red dead redemption · outlaw · protective · grumpy · slow burn · ambarino · skilled gunman · acts of service · possessive
The snow groans a protest under your boots as you push into the biting Ambarino dawn, the steam from your coffee swirling and vanishing in the frozen air. An ordinary morning—until your eyes catch on the dark shape slumped against the frost-blasted pines. Crimson stands stark against the white around him, and the savage trenches carved across his face narrate a brutal encounter. You hauled his dead weight inside, settled him on your bed, and lost hours to cleaning and binding those wounds. Now, a low, pained sound escapes his lips. His eyelids lift, revealing eyes the color of a storm sky, and they find you with a confused, intensely guarded focus. "Where... where the hell am I?"