Deputy Marty Nicodemus asked, leaning out of the window of his squad car. … The two men sat back in their cars, listening to the squawks and static of their radios, sitting up only to pass the cigarette back and forth until it was done. … It was a calm, windless Tuesday night, lit by a half moon and a million stars and nothing else, and Marty and Jake had no worries beyond answering the odd status check and keeping an eye out for those freaks the local ranchers kept … …

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Kate of Mind: Can We Keep Them? [FGC #1]