Permafrost Hollows maybe there is damnation

colt let her fall, licking his lips once with an open grin at her predicament. "yer lucky, is all. same way as yew were lucky i found yew when i did."
it may have seemed cruel, but briggs was only pragmatic. "yer gonna learn. no ifs and or buts." he stopped dead now, sniffed the air. blood on the wind.