He sat down and allowed himself a short pull from the waterbag. He scanned the desert, looked up at the sun, which was now sliding down the far quadrant of the sky. He got up, removed his gloves from his belt, and began to pull devil-grass for his own fire, which he laid over the ashes the man in black had left. He found the irony, like the romance of his thirst, bitterly appealing.
He did not use the flint and steel until the remains of the day were only the fugitive heat in the ground beneath him and a sardonic orange line on the monochrome western horizon. He watched the south patiently, toward the mountains, not hoping or expecting to see the thin straight line of smoke from a new campfire, but merely watching because that was a part of
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"Tried to teach him The Lord's Prayer once." His eyes traveled out beyond the hut for a moment, toward the gritty, featureless hardpan. "Guess this ain't Lord's Prayer country. You're a gunslinger. That right?"
"Yes." He hunkered down and brought out his makings. Zoltan launched himself from Brown's head and landed, flittering, on the gunslinger's shoulder.
"After the other one, I guess."
"Yes." The inevitable question formed in his mouth:
"How long since he passed by?"
Brown shrugged. "I don't know. Time's funny out here. More than two weeks. Less than two months. The bean man's been twice since he passed. I'd guess six weeks. That's probably wrong."
"The more you eat, the more you toot," Zoltan said.
"Did he stop off?" the gunslinger asked.
Brown nodded. "He stayed supper, same as you will, I guess. We passed the time."
The gunslinger stood up and the bird flew back to the roof, squawking. He felt an odd, trembling eagerness. "What did he talk about?"
Brown cocked an eyebrow at him. "Not much. Did it ever rain and when did I come here and had I buried my wife. I did most of the talking, which ain't usual." He paused. and the only sound was the stark wind. "He's a sorcerer, ain't he?"
"Yes."
Brown nodded slowly. "I knew. Are you?"
"I'm just a man."
"You'll never catch him."
"I'll catch
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Alexander was never one to easily voice his feelings. Instead of being vocal of his thoughts, he wrote them down, and after he scribbled them down? Well, he'd do one of three things;
However the brightness of the day may have dimmed, but not the joy from the people around me. Everyone is either watching kids play basketball on the old wooden framed basketball hoop or enjoying a match of badminton while the zip-line flies by overhead. The night however, does bring a mood about the people of the island. It's a mood of vigor and excitement! When the sun is beginning to set and the sky portrays a magnificent array of yellows reds and pinks which reflects off the water making a sort of etched painting glistening in the falling sun. As the sun sets, dinner has just finished and we all part our ways, many people sit on the back porch overlooking the water, a few go into to the square where people begin to prep for the glorious bonfire. Although, I choose to sit in Toad Hall, this place is constructed out of old slender burned wooden planks, that have five little rooms cut out inside. Toad Hall on the outside looks like a little ranch style home with wooden slabs on the outside along with a red tin roof, which is where I like to call my second home. As dinner comes to an end so does the daylight. As I walk out of Toad Hall a dark haze has consumed the island and I am excited by the smell of burnt pine coming from a ferocious. The fire has seemed to brought people out to see what the light is, buts it's when they arrive they are surprised to see the glorious fire which has brought people together around the old brick fire pit. Here we tell stories, sing songs and make s'mores until it is pitch black and the crowd has slowly dispersed into their cabins or tents and it is now I say my goodnights to my family and friends and tread my way back on the dirt path. I can see the gazebo, as I bank the corner, it stands tall in the moonlight and the water has
Then he took some matches and proceeded to make a fire. In the bushes,
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