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− | Mike cleaned up after the others had gone for the night. He had a pump out back and while he got it filling a bucket, I found his soap and razor and watched as he put them to good use. He was leaner, honed to a sharper edge than I’d remembered seeing him and I wondered if it was from the rigors of | + | Mike cleaned up after the others had gone for the night. He had a pump out back and while he got it filling a bucket, I found his soap and razor and watched as he put them to good use. He was leaner, honed to a sharper edge than I’d remembered seeing him and I wondered if it was from the rigors of the rustic lifestyle or from his constant vigilance against assassins and the Feds. He’d picked up a new scar or two and I examined them as I waited for him to finish. They weren’t bullet or knife scars but more like injuries from carving his homestead out of the wilderness. I recalled the one-man saw I’d seen in his cabin and reckoned they were from that. Under the wheeling midnight sky, he scrubbed down head to toe and sluiced off with the bucket, and not for the first time I marveled that he could do that standing buck naked in Salisbury’s cold mountain air.<br> |
− | He turned | + | He turned to me, shaking the water from his eyes and slicking his long hair back, and without a word I followed him inside. |