Chapter 14 Five Whores Adventure:_14

• I took Aimee by the arm and steered her up the trail toward where our mules were tethered. She seemed to be crying. The mystery had endured long enough. I promised myself that I would pry the story out of my beautiful friend once we found a place to bed down.
• The terrain we were in was still high plains. But it was close enough to the mountains that there were table rocks and caves. I had no desire to find out what was living at the back of a cave. But there was a nicely eroded area underneath a cliff face that gave us several feet of cover.
• If we built a fire at the mouth, we could probably sleep undisturbed by any of the local varmentia. And it appeared that the Indians had been pacified, thanks to Abigail.