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Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject:

"Sounds good. How's he been doin' in all this?"

...

From a distance, the ranch looks untouched. Rebecca can see things on the horizon. On the hills that hide Silver City from the ranch, forms have gathered. Hard to tell what they are, but she and Tristan can take a guess. He mutters a curse.
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

"Son of a bitch," she growls. Rebecca turns in the saddle and whistles sharply for Demon. "I can't draw 'em off the way Finn did, so I guess I'll be fightin'."

"Go roust the men," she says as she slips off the back of his horse. "And get your explosives, I reckon. I'll go get Wyatt." Which she hates to do. The boy needs a nap.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:00 am Post subject:

"Wait! Be patient, Rebecca! Damn, we shouldn't just head thar now, they'll see tha others come outta tha warrens... You go back to Demon and Wyatt and I'll get the boys ready. I'll come get ya when we're ready. We're better off layin' traps today than headin' uphill against the sods. If ya don't like it, ya can climb back up here an' finish what ya were plannin' on doin' in tha first place... Whaddya think?"
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

She stopped and looked up at him with a confused frown. "Are they just gonna sit there all day and watch?"

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

He turns to look at them again. "I'm not sure... But they're far away 'nough that we can hurry and find out. I didn't notice'em 'til now so this move has ta be fairly recent. I just think we're better off checkin' with the Haley boys. I sent 'em out this mornin' to check on things."
Tristan turns back to Rebecca and adds, "You haven't seen them move... They're fairly bulky an' slow, unless things have changed drastically."
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

She eyes the ridge and the things ruining the view. "How slow can they be if they were chasing Finn and Blake?" she wonders. But she bows to Tristan's superior knowledge of the things. "Alright. I need ta get my things from the house. I really want my shotgun about now, an' I need to saddle up Demon. Then I'll go back ta Wyatt's an' wait for ya. I'll let him nap till ya get there."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject:

Tristan nods. "I'll let ya go to tha ranch on yer own then. Best that I get ta scoutin' and gatherin' the men right away, especially if ya think they'll attack soon." He sighs and says, "I was really hopin' ta get ya a relaxin day, ya know... I'm sorry."

Demon arrives at a gallop.
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

"Not your fault," she counters. "be careful."

Rebecca holds out a hand and grabs a handful of mane, leaping onto Demon's back without him having to stop.

She adjusts herself on his bare back. We got trouble. We'll grab our gear and go back to Wyatt to wait for Uncle T.

Demon continues his gallop towards the house. Bring it on.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:59 am Post subject:

Rebecca and Demon make their way to the house swiftly. Though it is day, the remnants of the camp and what used to be her home in the quiet morning make things very eerie. Tristan makes his way to the cave system.
A few open barn doors sway in the low unsteady wind.

Demon keeps an eye on things, watching the shapes of the machines, unmoved.

Rebecca can feel the mental tug of a contact. It feels like trump, but it could be the psychic field knocking at the door of her mind, she is uncertain.
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

Rebecca pauses in the middle of cinching Demon's saddle. There were a handful of reasons to ignore it, but at least that many to give it attention.

She gives the strap a final tug and speaks lowly to her horse. "If I start acting like I'm in trouble, you have my permission to do whatever ya need to get me out of it."

Demon huffs in agreement while Rebecca frowns and looks around quickly before lowering her shields enough to test the waters warily.

"Who?"

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:53 am Post subject:

Something distant, a whisper... A powerful mind pushing, establishing a stronger connection. No answer. No image comes to mind either. It could be trump, but it isn't anything she's experienced with trump before. Something calls hello, so very faintly. At this time she can continue opening to the contact, or close and safely continue about her day.
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

"Bah," she huffs irritably, turning her thoughts elsewhere and easing her protections back up. "Ain't got time for games."

She slings the saddlebags behind the saddle, keeping an eye the ridge as she ties them on. It makes her angry, these abominations in her home world. Demon picks up on her simmering mood and paws at the dirt restlessly, snorting and shaking out his mane. A sharp flick of his tail gets her attention back on the task at hand.

"Right," she says firmly. Swinging up into the saddle, she adjusts her hat and her seat. "Wyatt's. Where we wait"

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:05 am Post subject:

The things on the hills haven't moved yet and the sun climbs into the sky at its usual pace, though bunches of clouds choke the open skies a bit. Smoke columns continue to rise out of Silver City.

...

Wyatt is snoring loudly by the time she gets back, which she can hear from outside his cabin. Inside, she finds him sprawled over the bed, over the covers even, for the man has not bothered getting back into them.
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Rebecca pauses on the porch, looking up at the ridge again. What, she wonders, are they waiting for? She strikes a match on the porch rail to light her cigarette and counts enemies through a smokey haze. After a moment she turns to head inside, calculating the odds in her head.

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She chuckles quietly at finding Wyatt, then leaves him to sleep a little longer. Tossing her duster aside, Rebecca goes to make fresh coffee and rustle up something quick for breakfast. It being Wyatt's place, and her doing the cooking, it's nothing fancy. Too soon for her liking, she's heading into the bedroom to wake up her husband.

Curling one leg under her, she sits on the bed beside and runs a hand down his muscled chest. "Wyatt.... I'm sorry, darlin'; but ya need to wake up."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:02 am Post subject:

Wyatt awakens mid-snore and sits up abruptly, looking at Rebecca, surprised for an instant. Then he sighs and rubs his eyes, and looks at her, "Do ya hafta leave already?" He looks out the window for a moment to get reacquainted with his surroundings. "I was dreamin' of ya..."
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