Chapter 25I was surprised to see Rachel Ann and Ides sitting on my buckboard’s seat when I emerged through the train station door. I’d planned on renting a horse, figuring the stable people here knew me and wouldn’t climb on their high horse and refuse my money. Consequently, I hadn’t sent a message about my early return home. Ethan must have sent a bird this morning.
“You’re back earlier than I thought,” Rachel Ann said. “Why didn’t Ethan come back with you? His message didn’t say.”
“There were a couple of killings. They threw me off the reservation claiming I didn’t belong, but they won’t let anyone else leave.”
“Was he involved?” she asked.
“No, he was busy getting drunk after Touch the Clouds and Red Cloud said words over us.”
“So it’s done, then?”
“Aye. It’s done.”
“Is Ethan ev
