Call had expected the fight and watched impassively, pleased that the boy had fought so hard. He looped his rein over a tree limb and went walking back toward Lorena's. She sat in a chair all day, saying nothing to anyone. It wouldn't even turn, though Pea Eye twisted hard enough to cause a stream of blood to flow down Gus's leg.
He wanted to go back to sleep. It's to build you up, he said. Why him? she asked. But she was tied, and there was no way.
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