| Ch. 41 Senior Ricco, Sam Steiner, and the Ricco kids attack haven number one during the night with picks, axes, and gunpowder. By morning, they've knocked a large hole in the roof. The townspeople attempt to flee through the door, but Steiner shoots several of them and tells them to stay inside. Following Jared's orders, he gives them an hour to fill several bottles with blood. They watch while the Lamprous dine and pour out the excess blood on the ground. Soon afterward, Senior Ricco realizes to his annoyance that his son Junior has escaped in the confusion: "He wasn't all that fine a son and I feel I owe him. He used to kick my tail blue."
Ch. 42 Clint visits the cave where Jared used to hide as a child. He yells a warning into the darkness that he's going to "get" Jared for ordering the raid on the haven. He tells him to stay away from Baron, who is showing whip marks. Clint then climbs into his tree to sleep, dreaming about the time Jared first discovered that Clint had the mark of Duquieu on his head.
Ch. 43 The Anderson brothers, Swen and Tom (turned into Lamprous by the Ricco kids), join Steiner and the "Lamprou gang" in a raid on haven number three, which is now packed with extra townspeople who survived the attack on the first haven. Someone inside shoots Swen with an arrow and knicks his heart. He screams in pain, driving everyone crazy, until Tom "leads him out of sight and shoves him down a mountainside." The Ricco kids blow a hole in the roof, and the townspeople are filling blood bottles when Clint arrives on Baron. He kills Tom Anderson with a wooden sword and throws the rest of the weapons into the haven, arming the townspeople. The Lamprous scatter.
Ch. 44. Coley is missing from haven number three. Clint orders Sid, the general store manager, to form squads to hunt for her. Sid is perplexed that Clint is suddenly riding Baron, hunting Lamprous, and staying outside the havens at night.
Ch. 45 Portia tries to leave Blood again and is stopped by the "border guards," July West and his equally ugly brother August. When she returns to Sugie's cabin, she notices the hay bales behind her archery target are once again askew. Sugie hops over to them and discovers Senior Ricco's sleeping body. They haul the mewing, slothlike Lamprou into the trees (Portia wondering why he doesn't wake up) and then travel to the Ricco place, where they find Junior hanging by the neck. He has killed all six of his children and "didn't have the heart to kill his pap" and thus left him for Portia to kill accidently, as she did with Sweck Brewster. Sugie sends Portia up to Widow Witt's and takes off to find Clint.
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Ch. 42 Clint visits the cave where Jared used to hide as a child. He yells a warning into the darkness that he's going to "get" Jared for ordering the raid on the haven. He tells him to stay away from Baron, who is showing whip marks. Clint then climbs into his tree to sleep, dreaming about the time Jared first discovered that Clint had the mark of Duquieu on his head.
Ch. 43 The Anderson brothers, Swen and Tom (turned into Lamprous by the Ricco kids), join Steiner and the "Lamprou gang" in a raid on haven number three, which is now packed with extra townspeople who survived the attack on the first haven. Someone inside shoots Swen with an arrow and knicks his heart. He screams in pain, driving everyone crazy, until Tom "leads him out of sight and shoves him down a mountainside." The Ricco kids blow a hole in the roof, and the townspeople are filling blood bottles when Clint arrives on Baron. He kills Tom Anderson with a wooden sword and throws the rest of the weapons into the haven, arming the townspeople. The Lamprous scatter.
Ch. 44. Coley is missing from haven number three. Clint orders Sid, the general store manager, to form squads to hunt for her. Sid is perplexed that Clint is suddenly riding Baron, hunting Lamprous, and staying outside the havens at night.
Ch. 45 Portia tries to leave Blood again and is stopped by the "border guards," July West and his equally ugly brother August. When she returns to Sugie's cabin, she notices the hay bales behind her archery target are once again askew. Sugie hops over to them and discovers Senior Ricco's sleeping body. They haul the mewing, slothlike Lamprou into the trees (Portia wondering why he doesn't wake up) and then travel to the Ricco place, where they find Junior hanging by the neck. He has killed all six of his children and "didn't have the heart to kill his pap" and thus left him for Portia to kill accidently, as she did with Sweck Brewster. Sugie sends Portia up to Widow Witt's and takes off to find Clint.
- tom moody 5-24-2002 6:12 am