She was immediately assaulted by the competing smells. The fresh evergreen wind off the Rockies battled with the mechanical steam odor of the train, a...s both mixed with the smoky haze that emanated from the small town. It only had a few hundred residents but supplied the thousand or more miners in the area.She adjusted the bustle of her dress and tucked the small pillow she’d been sitting on under her arm. Thankfully, her dress wasn’t the Victorian styled full bustle that was common back East,. He brought clothes over, toiletries. He showered here, basically he was living with me. With my occasional evening hours, he even had his own key and would be there waiting for me with dinner ready. I was beyond confused. I did not ask why we were not having sex nor did I kick him out because I was lovelorn. He would not make a move and I was essentially throwing myself at him all the time. After a long month sleeping next to him, I woke up with a tank wound around me awkwardly in my sleep. I. Now he could 'feel' a far bigger presence ahead of him with some eight hundred people gathered together his senses suggested.This was far more substantial than a mere steading and his connection to the earth told him of the numbers of structures as well as the numbers of people. Eoric was pleasantly surprised when a picture of what the camp looked like appeared in his head and he was able to consider the scale of it, the layout and even identify the most significant buildings.He used this 'map'. “Right, we’ll have a hearing. Sergeant? I want the accuser, the victim and the soldier concerned in the town hall in an hour.”“I believe the council were due to meet with you then sir”“So much the better, they can see how justice applies to all. Make sure the civilian force is there to keep order. This is not an army affair, the laws apply to all.” He knew he was on thin ice, but then the women he was planning on fucking in Humber’s house were all volunteers; albeit unwilling participants in.