Lone Star 04 (2010)
“Like any farming community, the day’s work began before sunrise. A milk cow bawled, and chickens began clucking about outside the window. Cookpans rattled on the stove, and one enterprising farmer started nailing a broken fence when there was scarcely light to see it.
Jessie moaned and gave up, stumbled out of bed, and searched out her clothes in the half dark. The family who’d put her up invited her to breakfast in broken English, and Jessie accepted.
She found Ki waiting across the common, ...and strolled down to meet him. Like Jessie, he was wearing the same clothes he’d put on the day before, since neither had anticipated spending the night outside of Roster. His well-worn denims were faded nearly white, and the loose-fitting cotton twill shirt had been washed so often it had no color at all. A battered Stetson and an old leather jacket completed his outfit. She saw he had thrust a pair of the wicked, two-pronged sai under his belt, weapons he could use in a dozen different ways.MoreLess
Jessie moaned and gave up, stumbled out of bed, and searched out her clothes in the half dark. The family who’d put her up invited her to breakfast in broken English, and Jessie accepted.
She found Ki waiting across the common, ...and strolled down to meet him. Like Jessie, he was wearing the same clothes he’d put on the day before, since neither had anticipated spending the night outside of Roster. His well-worn denims were faded nearly white, and the loose-fitting cotton twill shirt had been washed so often it had no color at all. A battered Stetson and an old leather jacket completed his outfit. She saw he had thrust a pair of the wicked, two-pronged sai under his belt, weapons he could use in a dozen different ways.MoreLess
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