Forests were certainly not a landscape that McCoy was used to, having lived in the arid desert for all his life, but he wasn’t fully ignorant of it. The lawman was kneeling beside a tree, searching for something of which he wasn’t fully aware when the message came directly into his mind. His expression hardened even further; smoke from his last rolled-up cigarette left the corner of his lips. Raising to his feet, he began following the source of the voice.

When he reached the waterfront, filled with warehouses showing cracks in their walls, his eyes widened slightly. [color=f7941d]“What the hell happened here?”[/color] He had no one to ask about it, but he spent a moment longer investigating the surroundings, looking for clues to what had happened. [color=f7941d]“An earthquake, huh?”[/color] He muttered under his breath as he kept following the source of the voice.

Each step he took down the stairs was followed by the sound of his boots hitting the floor and the clinking of the spurs. McCoy could barely reach the bottom of the stairs when he saw a blur disappearing as it appeared. [color=f7941d]“Heh, strange things happenin’ ‘round here. But I guess it is the norm.”[/color] A humorless chuckle left his lips.

There was already a gathered bunch, too many women, or, better said, girls with pointed ears. The whole situation made him even more cautious. [color=f7941d]“I hope the ‘help’ isn’t you needin’ a babysitter or somethin’ to look after them.”[/color] He motioned with his chin towards the group, taking another long drag of his cigarette.

[color=f7941d]“So you are needin’ us to hold whatever is comin’ through that there fissure.”[/color] The lawman threw his cigarette towards the ground, stepping on it to kill off the flame with a crunch. [color=f7941d]“And here I thought that the siege of the Alamo was the last place I had to defend after leavin’ the army.”[/color] With a deliberate slowness, he took out his six-shooter from the holster with his right hand, tipping his hat upward with his left one. [color=f7941d]“No question from me, sister.”[/color]


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