“Thank. You.” My voice was a whisper. Every word hurt my chest. The resonance point in my throat was so far out of reach it may as well have been ...on the moon.Yael’s lips brushed my cheek, stroked my hair.“Lunch soon,” the nurse said. “But first we’re going to get you to that chair.”I turned my head to the left. The nurse was pointing at a guest chair beside the bed. I moved my eyes back, looking distrustfully at the hoses still connected to me.“They have plenty of give; they’ll move with you.. The expression 'you're damned right you will' went through my mind, but I resisted saying it out loud.At the reception desk we both checked into to our respective rooms, which as it turned out were right next to each other. Walking down the corridor my room was the first we came to, and I thought Julia would follow me in, but she said ‘I need shower, I’ll give you a knock in a minute’. Feeling a little let down, I opened my room and went straight to the shower. After the journey I felt a bit. We tracked them to where they changed boots then tracked them to their wagon. We tracked the wagon to the southwest onto the Saddleback road but we lost it amid all the fresh horse, cow and wagon tracks,” Ezra said.“What would they be doing with the meat? Whoever it is seems to kill a lot of cattle like that just to be feeding a family,” Eli said.“Trapper told us about a small slaughter house and meat packing company down in Garland not too far from the old fort. He said they ship meat by rail. But he's got on black high-heels, make-up, and his hair is WAY past regulation."I should've helped him, Will. But I just didn't know what to do. When he stood up and looked at me with those wide, tear-rimmed eyes I got scared. Can you imagine -- ME scared? I couldn't fucking believe it myself. But I got scared and backed away from him, from my friend, my commander, a member of my team! I backed away from him. But no one else in the bar is noticing this. That's the eerie thing. He's a freakish.