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Fort Defiance - Chapter 13There was a silence like the quiet before a thunderstorm breaks. The drums had stopped. The wild singing and whooping had stopped. The wind had dropped with dawn and there was no dust shushing across the ground. Ned could not even hear birds calling. They had been silenced or scared away by the men in the hills. Only the horses moved restlessly by the stagecoach. They had been standing tethered all night, but they would not be given the chance to run now.

Ned stood by the stage wheel, glad of the protective solidity of all that wooden coachwork behind his back. Everyone was separate and waiting, standing on the dirt. Ned could hear small noi
Fort Defiance - Chapter 12Night had come, soft and thin with cold. There were drums somewhere in the hills making a low, steady, menacing beat. They were faster than a heartbeat and seemed to be part of the rocks and the earth as much as the wind that moved the dust and the animals that crept behind stands of grass.

Ned sat huddled against the wheel of the stagecoach, his arms about his knees, waiting. He wasn't sure what it was he was waiting for – for time to slip past, for the Indians to come out of the hills and attack, for the dawn to come with chill dew and quiet. Ben had said that the dark was starred with fires, like beacons, in the hills. There were hun
Fort Defiance - Chapter 11Ned felt like the last few days were split from the rest of his life like a broken bough that had fallen from a tree. This time had been an endless circle of hunger, riding, stumbling over loose ground, and hiding from a nation of people who wanted to kill him for someone else's sin. He was sore with riding and walking and the side of his face ached where Johnny had hit him. If someone had offered him a bed he would have lain down in it and slept without even taking his boots off, no matter who owned that bed.

They were walking up a hill, trying to make the climb out of the north side of the canyon towards the pass that Johnny knew of. There
Fort Defiance - Chapter 10He came to with his face in the dirt, breathing dry dust into his mouth and nose. The horses were stirring nearby, the trees rustling above his head. He pressed a hand slowly to his bruised cheek. Johnny had hit him. Johnny…

Shots were firing somewhere, echoing like thunder from the canyon walls. Panic clenched at him as a realisation crept into his head. Ben wanted to kill Johnny. That meant that Johnny would mean to kill Ben first. That fist fighting he had heard when Johnny first arrived made sense now. It would be so easy for Johnny to shoot Ben and say that the Indians got him.

'Ben?' he called out, staggering to his feet.

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~JacquiJax Sep 28, 2009
SO CUTE!
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=Aconitum-Napellus Sep 29, 2009  Professional Writer
Thank you :D
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~AnnaAddiction Jul 5, 2009
I got chills. :)
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=Aconitum-Napellus Jul 5, 2009  Professional Writer
:D
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*JocelyneR May 31, 2009
Awesome! :frail:
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=Aconitum-Napellus Jun 7, 2009  Professional Writer
Thank you :D
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Mood: Pleased *JocelyneR Jun 8, 2009
You are very welcome!
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*femketje May 30, 2009  Professional Photographer
pretty kitty
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=Aconitum-Napellus Jun 7, 2009  Professional Writer
Thank you :-) She's my angel :heart:
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*alswamprat May 8, 2009
<3
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