“I’m only jabbering because of your jabbering.”
I listened to them go back and forth for another solid hour or so, and no amount of asking and pleading could get them to stop. It was only when it seemed they were going to get to whomping on each other that Hap stood up and demanded that they shut up and go to bed.
I didn’t know what time it was when I drifted off to sleep, but I remember seeing Ben. He was still sitting up next to the fire, staring into it, a prisoner of his own thoughts.
Unlike the day before, I was now happy to be going home. I smelled like an old goat and my body was all sorts of sore from sleeping in the dirt and riding all day and being a prisoner and shot at and chased around and threatened with death at every turn. I could smell myself without even trying. Someti
