Redsand Canyon It's been drug through the mud

Yes, and no. She’d already eaten, but she could wait while he finished. Instead she sat down and kept alert, listening carefully for anything that might be around.

She also tried to take his measure silently. He sounded younger than Killer, but old enough to be at least near grown. He’d come from somewhere else, obviously, and his family wasn’t here. But he wanted to be a soldier. It seemed directionless boys were the perfect recruits for Mereo thus far.