Red Junction

He’d found the other men on a sticky June morning outside Independence’s pharmaceutical enclave. Sam imagined the work of necromancers and alchemists went on behind their doors. The wagon was loaded with four chests, all locked heavily with iron. The locks were filled with wax, and the keys were in another wagon which had already gone a month earlier to Red Junction. There were short and long firearms provided for each man, and ample ammunition for defense and hunting. Blankets, cookware and an ax–all provided. Sam brought on his person the long, bone-handled filleting knife his uncle had gifted him upon passing. He had a change of clothes and both his eyes.

The other men were of motley stock: Geoff Sindenburg, an enforcer of some infamy around town, for his method of removing rowdies from establishments of his employ. His persuasion was said to be sold with the heavy end of a sledge, and the repeat trespasser reported to exit the saloon with a crack in their head rivaling that of their ass.

There was also Truman Oliver, former rifleman of the Queen, aim unparalleled and a well known pederast. In New York he’d absconded with the son of an upholsterer and had these days taken the name of his own deceased brother, Adam Oliver, to avoid further entanglement. In the company of grown men, he was a valuable asset.

Finally, they were joined by a half-breed of Westman’s called Tom. He wore a pin-striped jacket over a beaded shirt. A ragged, dust-spewing top-hat capping sleek, long, pitch-black hair that went to the middle of his back. Feathers on his cuffs. He spoke English fluently, as well as several heathen tongues including Spanish, but he communicated for the most part in snarling grunts. Part specter, the man never slept save for brief naps with his eyes open and his hand white-knuckled on his tomahawk.... continued at: Excerpts from Red Junction

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