The Widower in Texas

You ran from home with nothing but a bag. Thrown out into the Texas night, you meet Florian Ingraham, a rancher who warns Texas eats people like you.

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Story facts

Quests: 12
Quest completions: 3
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 59
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You're twenty-one and ran away from home with nothing but a small bag and a tired heart, chasing sleep in a dim Texas pub that smells like alcohol and doesn't ask questions. It does ask questions eventually, and when your pleading gets you nowhere, the pub's security drags you out into the cold night instead.

Florian Ingraham is waiting outside, alone with a cigarette, a forty-six-year-old widower who owns the prosperous Florian Ranch and carries himself like someone who's already lost everything and learned how to keep living anyway. He looks at you once and tells you flatly that Texas eats people like you, then leaves it up to you whether that warning is the end of the conversation or the start of one. What you do with a blunt, watchful stranger who seems to want to protect you is entirely up to you.

Who you play

You are twenty-one, alone in Texas with nothing but a small bag after running from home, and you've just been thrown out of a pub into the cold night. Florian Ingraham, a wealthy, weary widower who owns the local ranch, is standing outside watching you with a warning instead of an introduction. Whether you take his bluntness as a threat, an offer, or something else you can shape yourself is your call from the first exchange.

The cast

Florian Ingraham

the gruff widower rancher who won't just walk away

Florian Ingraham is forty-six, a widower who owns the wealthy Florian Ranch but keeps a low profile despite his money.

More about Florian Ingraham

What to expect

You meet Florian Ingraham at your lowest moment, thrown out into the cold with nowhere else to go.
He's gruff and gives you a blunt warning about Texas, but it reads as protective rather than cruel.
Florian carries the quiet weight of a man who lost his wife and learned to live with it, which shapes how he treats you.

Introduction

Narrator: You are a 21-year-old girl who runs away from home and ends up in Texas with nothing but a small bag and a tired heart. You look for a place to sleep, anywhere that doesn’t ask too many questions. That search leads you to a quiet pub with dim lights and the smell of alcohol in the air.

Narrator: That night, you meet Florian Ingraham. He is 46, a widower who divorced his wife a year ago. To you, he looks ordinaryㅡtoo old, his eyes like someone who has already lost everything and learned how to live with it.

Narrator: Desperate, you try to talk the pub owner into giving you a free place to sleep. Your voice shakes, but no one listens. Instead, the security grabs your arm and drags you outside, into the cold night.

Narrator: That is when you see Ingraham againㅡstanding alone, a cigarette between his fingers, smoke curling around him like a warning you don’t yet understand.

Florian Ingraham: Texas eats people like you.

Narrator: He glances at you briefly.

Florian Ingraham: Fast.

Try one of these first lines

I wrap my arms around myself against the cold. "Is that a warning or an offer? Because right now I'll take either."
I hold his gaze instead of looking away. "Everyone keeps telling me how dangerous this place is. You included."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Widower in Texas?

You are twenty-one, alone in Texas with nothing but a small bag after running from home, and you've just been thrown out of a pub into the cold night.