The sun was up and the heat was starting to make Blake feel a little uncomfortable. And her cuss rant didn't help.
"Yeah. Oh yeah! Ya get the bloody youngest one to go out here! Thinkin' they gonna get killed! They're just so fuckin' lazy! Oh, I know! Why don't we jus' send someone dumb enough to even go out here. Oh an' while you're at it, DON'T GIT KILLED! God, those assholes! Lazy assholes more likely! I just know it! Even that damn bird didn't bother to come! Hell he's just a fatass bird! What the hell else is he gonna do?!"
She turned back to the direction she came from and yelled out, "I hope y'all appreciate what I go through for you!"
Blake looked out for a while with an innocent look before returning to her set mood and flipping them off from a distance and continued walking.
At least she appreciated that her horse Nightmare came along. Blake let him stay close by under some shade under a cliff. But he wasn't wanting to rest; something was bothering him. And it wasn't an animal.
Above the cliff looking down at Blake, two Comanche tribesmen watched the teenaged girl cuss to herself and a little too loud. They glanced at each other and back to her.
Blake continued, "And on top of that, they think they can get away with what they just did?!" There was a crunching of dirt, and then a clinking of metal.
"God I'm just gonna-!"
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Metal?
Blake took a look back but saw nothing. She sported the most confused look on her face as she walked back to where she felt the little bump on the dry ground. Blake moved her beige hair out of her eye to see well.
She knelt down and felt for the bump. Once she found it, she brushed it off with the sleeve of her coat, and found something she knew that probably wasn't supposed to be there.
Metal train tracks.
Blake raised her eyebrow. 'Why the Hell would this be here? Especially in the middle of the bloody desert... And in Indian territory,' she thought.
Then it hit her.
Blake snapped her head to look up and avert her gaze to her left. "Oh Hell no!" she yelped. Blake grabbed her revolver and shot at the air.
Just as she thought. Unfortunately.
Pieces of arrow fell a few feet away from her. It wasn't long before a second arrow eventually hit her on the shoulder. Blake grimaced in pain and went on one knee gripping her shoulder. She scanned the area and found two lone tribesmen, Comanche, she concluded, armed and ready to fire again.
Blake grabs her other gun and shoots in their direction. Of course those were only warning shots. "Don't come near me!" she informed, "Y'all know I'm just gonna shootcha!"
They ignored her and fired their arrows. She dodged them and ran back to find her horse. She didn't notice the tribesmen had left to mound on their horses. By then, when Blake had run a few yards, the sound of hooves could be barely heard from behind. Blake ran even faster, thinking she could get farther than them.
The tribesmen fired more arrows at her, one hitting her in the back of her leg. She quickly pulls it out and limply runs. Blake eventually whistled loudly for Nightmare and he came running up to her. She mounds on quickly and turns back to the Comanche.
What she saw was something she really wasn't expecting.
"Oh, you are fuckin' kiddin' me!"
Scuzz paced back and forth. "Boss's s-sure been g-g-gone for a wh-whi-ile now, hasn't sh-sh-she?" he stuttered.
"Jus' give her a little time, Scuzz," Freighter said. "She'll be back."
Wallowitz, however, was the most nervous out of them all. "Somethin' tell me that Blake's gonna kill us when she gits back." Edgar couldn't have agreed more. "She's a dangerous one, alright." Jake just sounded pissed for some reason. "Jes shut up! Blake's just been gone for 5 hours!"
"Speakin' of, Jake!" Freighter announced. Everyone went up to Freighter and tried to see. "There she is!" Through his telescope (well, Edgar's really) he saw the black cladded lady-outlaw on her horse.
But the look on her face really surprised him the most. "And she's... Lookin' kinda frantic." All gave judgmental looks to Freighter. "It's like she's bein' chased by someone." "Who?" Jake asked.
"Wait! It's those Comanches!"
"Those?"
"H-h-how many?"
Freighter checked again. "Two."
"Okay. Not bad," Wallowitz said. "If boss needs help, we'll-"
"Hold on, Walli..."
And then at least 48 more Comanche warriors came into view.
Cue the best combined look of 'holy shit' and 'fuck this shit' on their faces.
Freighter collapsed the telescope and turned around slowly. "Okay... How about: we forget everythin' bad we ever said about her. We go out there, and we apolo-"
He never finished his sentence when Blake came in and was thrown off her horse. She winced in pain.
"Blake! Y-ya alright?!" Scuzz asked. She tried to get up. "Y-yeah! I'm... I'm fine." She tried to walk forward but went down on one knee. "Certainly doe'n't look like it~," Jake commented.
"Hey! Why don't you try runnin' away from a bunch o' Comanches an' gettin' shit in the leg by 'em?!" Blake remarked. Jake stopped laughing afterwards.
Now everyone wanted to know what happened. "So what the hell happened? How'd they find you?" Freighter asked. "How... How far di-did you g-g-go?" Scuzz stuttered. Blake went ahead and explained the railroad she discovered in the desert, the chase and her coming back. "A railroad?! In the middle of the desert?! I thought that was part of the Comanche territory!" Edgar said. "That's what I thought, too...," Blake replied, "Looks like that Cole guy really doesn't keep his word." Then something hit Edgar. "Wait a minute, Blake! If there is that railroad... Then what if that leads to that silver mine?!" "Ed! I said-"
"Hold on! I think he's right!" Walliwitz interrupted. "That track could take us to that mine that Butch guy was talkin' 'bout! How 'bout that, boss?"
Blake wanted to say something, but then actually thought about that. They probably are right. Maybe that railroad could take them to that mine. Maybe that Butch guy wasn't bluffing afterall.
Maybe...
"Ya know... I've kinda always wanted to see a silver mine myself~," Blake finally said. "Boys! Let's find ourselves a silver mine~!"