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[withloadedguns]

In the afternoon he rode through the burnished woods at the edge of the city where he had gone in the day before and now he and the horse walked side by side down the twilight toward the edge of town where in the long red dusk and in the darkness the random aggregate of the lamps formed slowly a false shore of hospice cradled on the low lands

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[totallyinaband]

Dude. Was that all you?

[withloadedguns]

Seems like, he said.

[totallyinaband]

So you/re... narrating now?

[withloadedguns]

He nodded. He reached and took hold of his hat where it lay on the bar but he did not take it up and he did not move.

[totallyinaband]

Good to know, man.

[withloadedguns]

He nodded again but said nothing.

[totallyinaband]

I seriously did not know you had that many words in you, dude.

[withloadedguns]

I don't, he said. But the city does.