Desert Outlaws

Chapter 4

The strangers

Buck saw something moving in the settlement. When he got there, there was a man on the floor, sleeping.

"What's your name, kid?"

"Steve. Steve Herdon."

"Well, Steve, this is my place. So, get!"

"Please mister, we have nowhere else to stay. Our parents died to dehydration, and we are exhausted."

"What do you mean, we?"

"Me and my sister, we saw this place and decided to come over to check it out."

"Where's your sister?"

"Upstairs. I let her take the bed, she was barely able to walk when we got here."

Buck went upstairs to find a teenage girl on the bed, asleep. He nudged her to try and wake her up but has to shout to get her awake.

"Hey! Get up, I need to talk to you and your brother."

"What? Go away, Steve, gimme five minutes."

"I ain't your brother, missy, so I recommend that you get up before I drag you out that bed."

"Alright, alright, I'll get up. And who did you say you were?"

"That don't matter right now. All that is important is you getting down them stairs!"

The girl made her way sluggishly out of bed and then down the stairs. Buck followed her and asked them

"Right, names. Now. Your Steve, right?" Buck pointed at the man.

"Yeah, and she's-

"Rachel. I'm Rachel."

"How old are you two exactly?"

"I'm 22 and she's 15."

"Damn it. So I can't just kill you both and get on with myself."

"What?! You were going to kill us if we were adults? Is that what happened to them?" Rachel points at the two bodies that were still lying against the wall.

"No, they were there when I got here. I really need to dispose of them actually."

"Well mister, uh, what did you say your name was?"

"Moeding. Buck Moeding."

Thanks for reading Chapter 4 of Desert Outlaws!

This was quite a lengthy Chapter and I really appreciate you taking the time to read it! Chapter 5 will be under direwolf, you'll understand when you read it😉