I need you f*****g sheeple to leave me the f**k alone for ten minutes, she didn't say. Aloud, she said, “The only thing I could use right now is a phone. I lost my ATM card and my ID and everything else. I was...backpacking,” she said, with sudden inspiration. “I didn't think this area would be dangerous.”
“It's not,” Lisa said hurriedly. “We don't have hardly any crime around here. It's a good town with good people.” She scowled blackly in the direction of Lupe Mountain. “I have half a mind to go up there myself. Stupid pricks. Who do they think they are?”
“Anyway,” Laura continued, hoping to distract the irate woman, “I need to arrange for some money. If you let me borrow your phone, I can get a new ATM card, and ID, and start putting my life back together.”
“Can't you call your famil
