Otatso Wetlands Mustangs

colt let out his breath and leaned his head back. "jes' two, reno. we need yew back." he had vied for leader, he'd made sadey a second. but maybe he wasn't cut out for it right yet. whatever his failings in leadership, they were overlaid by his worry for red.
suppose even now they —
his nostrils flared.
"i told them kill her." reno would judge him for that but the man might understand the gambit. "they'd already torn sadey's guts all but open. i said kill her. but that one was too chickenshit. he dropped her an' they came for me. sadey told me they threw me into the creek there." colt laughed humorlessly. "that's how come we're all the way down these parts."