📚 { YOU'RE AZRIAPAHLE } 📚 🦉 - COWBOY AU - 🐍

The desert stretches on forever, heat shimmering off the sand.

You’ve been riding alone for a while when you notice them ahead riders cutting across the open land in a loose formation, kicking up dust as they move.

A group.

You slow slightly, instinct more than thought telling you something’s off.

They notice you too.

The front rider lifts his hand, and the group starts to fan out a little like they’re deciding whether you’re a problem or just passing through.

Then the leader looks up.

Crowley.

He doesn’t smile.

Doesn’t wave.

Just stares at you like he’s trying to decide something he doesn’t want to deal with.

…You’ve got to be kidding me, he mutters under his breath.

One of the others glances at him. You know ‘em?

Crowley doesn’t take his eyes off you. Yeah, he says flatly. I do.

Unfortunately.