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[indent][b]Late May, 1888[/b][/indent]

The night was always loud.

In the wee hours of the night within the void colored sky speckled with the white myriad of small stars laden in the vast emptiness lay the devil’s moon shining its most wicked semblance of light upon the west. Upon these lands hidden in the dark crevices between the weathered rocks, and among the cacti and weeds that engulf the plains houses creatures unknown to the passing man, only realized through the gutter cacophony of cawing and shambling feel of small critters in tandem with the slow stalking shuffle performed by larger beast whose growl would shock even the common man.

But tonight? Everything was silent.

One was to never be met with silence on the frontier, nature’s unending symphony of night had been felled. The air stoked the little flame burning out upon the rocky ground and stood stagnant all around, the only noise that could be heard upon the vastness of this land was the crackling pops of the flame that lay at Guillermo's feet and low breathing as he released air from his lungs. Tonight had been one of many nights in which the west stood still, frozen in place as if time had simply stopped even the chirps of the crickets beneath the moon had ceased to be vocalized. Guillermo’s back lay propped against the back of a horse which he’d been with his whole life. Ascuas was his name, an Andalusian horse of a light brown mane which as time flies by has grown light in color. A beaut of a horse that has been glued to his side since the day he stole the stallion from under the nose of his father’s estate; the two privileged beings riding into the sunset together. Guillermo's hand rubbed the side of the horse’s back softly, for as stubborn as the thing has been throughout these twenty years he’d yet to leave his side, even through the trial and many wounds suffered by both they are naught if not bonded.

A solitary yawn escaped from the tips of Guillermo's lips, his hands gripping the knife he held on his belt, with his other hand smothering the pile of slightly burning embers with a couple of nearby stones and dirt, mixing up the ground with his knife to truly kill the fire. [color=c26400][abbr=Jorge, come!]”¡Jorge, ven!”[/abbr][/color] On the other side of the fire, a dog, a type of sheepdog Guillermo had never come to learn the bread of trotted over. The youngest of all three beings by a number of years, he scratched the boy underneath his neck as the dog laid his body up against Guillermo. The ever-changing ways of these lands had been naught if not an ever-present force within all three of their lifetime, bundling up at night to ward off the nipping force of the cold night air against their skin. The wilderness had never treated them with an ounce of civility, a land of pure and utter chaos that lacked any shred of respect for the life it harbors within. A land that if there was a god it had long abandoned the West like a husband to a courtesan wife. And yet, in these lands fraught with nature's most unforgiving forces, Guillermo didn’t know what brought him out here when he was but a boy, and kept him upon these lands he now calls home. Was it his yearning to bask in the euphoria of glory? To have his name be known beyond that of his father’s? To be the man his father proclaimed he could never be? It was a cause he could not pinpoint, a hole in his mind he could not provide a solid answer to. Why did he leave to these lands, why did he never go back to San Diego? His mind drew naught but a blank on the existentialism of the query.

As his eyes drew heavy Guillermo slowly shut them, falling into the forgiving embrace of sleep as his only escape from the weary west. As his mind drifted into a land beyond human comprehension. However, a voice cut through his mind like a knife as he heard it. 

[color=FFFFFF][abbr=Jorge, come!]”¡Jorge, ven!”[/abbr][/color]

[color=c26400][abbr=What the fuck!]”¡qué chingados!”[/abbr][/color] Goosebumps rose up across his skin as the older man recoiled off of his horse, like a second instinct Guillermo hands gripped the gun that had laid to his side. Jorge had perked up at the noise, moving to where Guillermo now stands, his gun pointed off into the darkness surrounding the three. The noise, the fucking noise, even Guillermo would admit it was a carbon copy of his voice, although laden with imperfections. What was it? It couldn’t be a man. Jorge stood by his side, his posture withdrawn as he growled off into the darkness. In the distance, hidden in the shadow of darkness he could hear it. Mumbling off in his voice recounting words he had spoken not hours prior, the legs of the thing shuffling around cover behind spots he could not see beneath the moon’s light. As the creature approached slowly but surely, Guillermo gripped his hold upon the pistol.

Guillermo shifted his eyes to Jorge as he watched the dog lunge out forward narrowly missing whatever passed between his maw as Guillermo felt the sharp pain of what felt like a rock pass against his leg. It was quick, too quick for the gun. The man took the knife from his hip once again as he felt the creature pass by his legs for another swipe, this time snagging a bit of his pants along with it. Jorge heeded no further restraint and jumped into the scuffle with the small creature, chasing it around the little area around where they had attempted to sleep before catching the thing in his jaw, cracking the neck of the little demon in one swift motion as he brought the carcass back to Guillermo. In his time out in the west he hadn’t seen many of these before; A small hare-looking thing of a bigger size with horns like those of a deer poking out the top of its dome, within his mind he had failed to remember the name of such a creature. It brought upon itself it’s own demise, the thing that had thought to make the two it’s own dinner would end up being tomorrow's breakfast. This little fight had curbed all Guillermo's hope for a few hours of sleep tonight, lest another try to come prey upon the three, alas there ain’t no rest for the wicked. 
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