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Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:59 am Post subject:

"Ya got it," Wyatt answers seriously.

He mounts Singer swiftly and with a tip of his hat in the direction of Faylinn, Finn and Kade, starts riding back to the the Lone Pine, trying to keep up with Demon and Rebecca.
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

While anxious to get to their destination, Demon stays at Singer's pace without being told. Rebecca's eyes drift over Tent City again, and she scowls.

"Wyatt -- Why're all these people here?"

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:28 am Post subject:

"Silver City's gone... Camp'd 'round here are all tha survivors 'part from those who left on tha trail windin' north of us 'bout a month ago." Wyatt shakes his head, "A lot of bad stuff has happened here. Started six months ago. Silver City's more like Iron City now..." He looks ahead, his expression grim, she can barely make out what he says, "Weird machines from Silver City and southa here. Weird fuckin' stuff."
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Demon snorts angrily. Rebecca doesn't bother to calm him any. She is angry too. Her mouth sets in a hard line as she faces forward.

"So, a coupla weeks after I left last," she said grimly. "Dammit all ta hell. We saw tracks of large, heavy passage across the plains on our way in. Never thought ta see that here, not with the mountains around tha area."

She turned to watch him, to study the man who had been by her side since she was two. "How'd ya get hurt?" she asked in a low voice pitched just for him.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:51 am Post subject:

Wyatt's jaw sets and through gritted teeth, he answers, "One 'a their steel structures collaps'd on me.... I'll... tell ya 'bout it later."
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

Steel Structures? Just what the hell had come through here?

Rebecca's alarm was overcome by her concern for the man beside her. Demon angled in with a sympathetic whiny. Rebecca leaned over and laid her hand over Wyatt's.

What she said next was only understood by Wyatt and the horses.

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[OOC: Pulling Fay and Kade's conversation off here: http://amberconarizona.theiforum.com/post1070.html#1070
Also, assuming they've caught up by now...]

"Have them take off their shirts," Faylinn says to Finn as she catches up with him. "The last one did not have the mark on his back, but on his chest. And it is likely to be faster."

Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

Rebecca and Demon pulled to a halt with a dark scowl that grew darker as she listened. "No. Not here. There's a reason Wyatt feels we should get back to the ranch before dark, I suspect. You didn't see what was between were we were attacked an' here. We can have a private face ta face with Uncle T and Wyatt when we get inside."

She turned to Wyatt with an apologetic look. "But just ta ease their minds, take off yer shirt, darlin'."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

Wyatt listens to what Finn has to say and shoots a couple of looks back toward Silver City.

"Here," he says and quickly removes his shirt, checking his back as well, paranoid. "How does the stuff happen? People're chang'd how? 'lot of 'em men at the Lone Pine now surviv'd the main assault on Silver City... The machines have been takin' children. Or tryin' ta..." He turns to Rebecca and points to his scar, "That's... how I got this."
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She leans over and runs a hand over Wyatt's back and then helps him put his shirt back on.

Her eyes narrowed and she too looked back towards the town burning unseen. "They're what?" she growled. "Not on my watch."

She continues muttering darkly and eyeing the horizon.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

Wyatt's back is scarred here and there, some scars are recent and some new, but nothing remotely resembles what Faylinn and Finn observed just a bit earlier.
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Finn shakes his head and frowns at Rebecca in return, "No. I did not mean to check the entire camp from here. I needed to know that Wyatt was intact. I truly hope that Tristan is as well." He waits and nods in satisfaction after checking Wyatt's skin and back for himself. "Good. Wyatt, you need to check your best men, and as I said, have it trickle down. It only takes one spy to spell your doom."

His lips press together, "The Black Road is near. It makes what was previously impossible or unlikely into quite the opposite." Finn moves out of the way, "Anyone can bear the mark, Wyatt. If anyone has been behaving strangely, you'll want to take a closer look at them." Finn hooks a thumb at the tent city, "That place could have one subverted man, or several. If you feel pretty confident about your men, then I suppose we can head in." He gestures to Fay, "My Sister can tell you what to look for when we get there."

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"It is not terribly difficult to find," Faylinn says dryly.

Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

"I didn' say ya did." Rebecca looks back at Finn, her face hard in response to what they've found so far. "A coupla Shadows before we got here, we came across an army -- two armies, one in yella. They were fightin' over a black tower hoverin' over the Road. We'd'uv been here sooner 'xcept we took a long way 'round to avoid it. The last plain of Shadow 'fore ya hit Cimarron has been been decimated. Once we got here, we found tracks of heavy war machines."

Demon dances impatiently under her, straining in the direction of the ranch house. Rebecca is having to actively hold the reins to keep him from breaking away. Her heart wasn't in the struggle though. She was as impatient as he was. This was her home, god-dammit, and nothing had ever replaced the ranch and the people who called it home in her heart.

"You do what ya need ta do, and I'll do tha same. Right now, I need to get down there, check on my step-father and Zach, and call my Dad."