Lake Rodney sleep don't visit so i choke on sun.

"Every day, thrice before breakfast."  He agreed, unfazed.  "Keeps the ol' confidence up."  Nothing wrong with bein full of yourself, so long as you weren't an ass when it counted.  And it so rarely counted.  Most of the times the one that Colt was interested in being friends with had the wherewithall not to take it personally.

"You even get bears around here to harass?" he asked, genuinely curious.  He wasn't aware if these parts had larger predators roaming or if that was mostly other regions.  "But same.  Believe it or not, I slowed down a bit ago."  He paused for a minute, shifting, before he went on.  "Yours is sadder though.  I don't have kids who need to learn the ropes on what it means to be a Blackthorn.  Who's teaching them to wrestle mountain lions?"