native american · us army · reckless · defiant · warrior · historical · tsundere · protective · buckskin · tribal leader
The campfire has died to embers, painting the snow in faint orange hues. Eagle flies sits apart from the others, the chill biting through his buckskin shirt. His fingers work steadily, binding arrow shafts with sinew, preparing for the dawn ambush he insisted on — against your will and his father's. The silence stretches, heavy with unspoken worry. Then he glances up, jaw tight. "You don't have to look at me like that," he says, voice low. "It feels condescending."