#also: ya boy and s re-discovering some semblance of belonging connection n family only for it to be torn away from them again? 🫠

[wildlcck]

@jnkdrwr x

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she's tried everything and then some: reading. smoking. sheep-counting... now, she's taken to checking and cleaning her cattleman- again. despite its already being cleaner than a damn whistle. sleep's never seemed so far off, nor so uninviting. there's no comfort or rest to be sought in it. just the trading of a waking nightmare for some dream ones. and then- maybe it's nothing. a twig trodden by some critter. maybe. the trees got their ways of playing tricks on the mind, eyes and ears. then again, if she's learned anything in her time... that feeling- the feeling- the hairs at the back of your neck standing up on end... it ain't never nothing. it just might be something. or, someone trying their damnedest to be silent; sneaky. out hunting, daddy always said he didn't need no hound- not when he had her by his side, with her keen eye and nose. ❛ hold yer horses, sticky fingers. you should be thankin' yer lucky stars your balls wasn't kicked clean off ya by that pretty little pony there you got your eye on. he's a mean one, all right- but, i'm meaner, mister. and i ain't makin' no promises 'bout your stones. now, i could yell for the others. sure is a lot of us... each meaner than the last. we might tie you up. cut ya up, 'til you start singin' like a birdie. or, maybe i'll take ma time with you. just you, me an' my knife... nice an' slow. you'd better start squealin'- an' soon. what the hell are you doin' here? 'sides tryin' yer damn luck. ❜