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Snake-eyes - part 2 -
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The black Dodge affectionately dubbed by Ted Karanzza as "the dark," is still on the road, that sunny Saturday morning in the Texas desert. But, what about the police?
A few miles back...
The snakes are still in the front seats of the vehicle undisturbed, until:
"I found a stick, Sheriff!"
Sheriff Brawn is sitting on a rock, fanning himself with his hat...
"Okay boy. Let's get this over with..."
Jeremy approaches the car and stands three feet from the snakes, stretching out his arm with the stick. And the Sheriff alerts him:
"Watch out Jeremy, we're a long way from the hospital! One sting and that's it!"
Jeremy hooks the stick through the middle of the snake, half tremolo, and throws it out of the vehicle... Sheriff Brawn draws his gun! "BANG!" The bullet almost splits the snake in half...
"YEEHUUU! On the fly!" Vibrates Jeremy.
"Take the other one, I want to hit the head... Be careful!"'
The boy
FCMIn the next chapter: Malcon Ramires, while the other three are testing their sights on their rifles, doesn't seem to care about anything, looks at the barn's wooden walls... Takes a sip of his beer...Puts the bottle down...and squeezes the eyes... And he couldn't help noticing a large buffalo hide nailed open to the wooden wall, higher up... He then walked exactly eight steps closer... And he could see closer to the edge of the leather , some drawings of mountains, and further down, something like tents being connected to the base of the mountains by a random line. Ramires runs a hand over his chin noticing a strange symbol at the end of the random line, right at the base of the mountains... He starts to reach out to touch the leather, when:
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