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Wind Wind Wind Wind Wind
Lucy girl.
Sun’s sinking down these hills and here you are sinking too. I know the sort of bone-deep tired you and Sam must feel these days as you run. I know what it is to flee with your past panting behind, claws extending in the dark. I’m not a cruel man, whatever you think.
Lucy girl, there were plenty of times I wanted to give you a soft, easy life. But if I did, the world would gnaw1 you down like these buffalo2 bones.
Night’s the only time I got now, and this wind the only sort of voice. I have your ear till sunup. It’s not too late, yet.
Lucy girl, there’s only one story worth telling now.
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Every soul in this territory knows the year a man pulled gold from the river and the whole country drew up into itself, took a breath that blew wagons3 out across the West. All your life you heard people say the story starts in ’48. And all your life when people told you this story, did you ever question why?
They told it to shut you out. They told it to claim it, to make it theirs and not yours. They told it to say we came too late. Thieves, they called us. They said this land could never be our land.
I know you like things written down and read out by schoolteachers. I know you like what’s neat and pretty. But it’s high time you heard the truth story, and if it hurts—well, at least you’ll be tougher for it.
So listen. Tell yourself it’s the wind in your ear if you must, but I reckon these nights belong to me till you bury that body of mine.
That history in your books is plain lie. Gold wasn’t found by a man, but by a boy the same age as you. Twelve. And it wasn’t found in ’48 but back in ’42. I know because it was me that found it.
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Well, it was properly Billy that touched gold first. Billy was my best friend, a grown man of forty or so, though it was hard to say and he sure wasn’t saying. People today’d call him mutt: his ma was Indian and his ba one of those small, dark vaqueros come from across the Southern desert. They left Billy with two names—one most people couldn’t pronounce, and one most could—plus skin the color of fresh-peeled manzanita bark. His arm shone in the river as he tickled5 a fish.
Something flashed against Billy’s dark red, brighter than scales. I shouted.
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