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Strange finding a kid out here. Stranger still to find out that he's the Bounty Hunter killed the man that took my wife and child from me. Sitting here now camped out for the night in the middle of the forest with him is surreal. I never expected to meet him, or for him to be so... What am I thinkin'? That's a man over there, killed more than I ever have met and yet I've got almost ten years on him? Says he's twenty four, but I'd say more like twenty, twenty-two tops. He seems nice enough, but what am I doing hanging around? Kid can obviously take care of himself. Maybe I'm just lonely, I'll move along in the morning.
“So what's got you traveling out this way?” He asks me pulling me out of my head suddenly.
I clear my throat, “Well I... Looking for work, like everyone else. Heard that the California Territory was finally opened up again and besides there wasn't anything in Penchant Junction left for me. The Mauler Callahan made sure of that. Took my family.”
“I'm sorry. Seems to be a bit of that going 'round lately.” Danny answers quietly, poking the fire with a stick, letting the green wood burn and smolder in his hand. I look at the dirty bandage he still has on and remember that I have a bottle of bourbon in my pack. I get up and start fishing through my stuff. I swear I can feel his eyes on me, but when I look up he's just staring at the flames. Kid's kind of odd. Or is it me?