[Too many came down from the station with only the most rudimentary ideas about fighting, and this sort of fighting - in the back alleys and faced with superior weapons, was not simple.
It wasn't a barroom brawl or something to walk away from, not with the town coming down around their ears, not with the bandits shying away from nothing to get answers. But he would find answers of his own.]
They can be protected somewhere the Bouldersnakes won't look. The mines, or one of the buildings far from the center of town.
[Mind already spinning away in plans, how to set up barriers to keep the bandits from overrunning them, even as the rest of him is planning how to chase them out of town completely. Or kill them all.]
The only way to know which one it is, is to kill him.
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[Too many came down from the station with only the most rudimentary ideas about fighting, and this sort of fighting - in the back alleys and faced with superior weapons, was not simple.
It wasn't a barroom brawl or something to walk away from, not with the town coming down around their ears, not with the bandits shying away from nothing to get answers. But he would find answers of his own.]
They can be protected somewhere the Bouldersnakes won't look. The mines, or one of the buildings far from the center of town.
[Mind already spinning away in plans, how to set up barriers to keep the bandits from overrunning them, even as the rest of him is planning how to chase them out of town completely. Or kill them all.]
The only way to know which one it is, is to kill him.