“No, Paw. She don’t remember nothin’.”
The man just grunted and turned to leave the room.
The woman leaned down and whispered, “Paw said he thought you looked a lot like that crazy woman president, Osterman, but I told him he was wrong. What would a president be doin’ way out here all alone?”
“You said crazy woman?”
She nodded. “Yeah. Ever since that bitch took over runnin’ the country we ain’t had enough to eat, nor no medicine for our kin that took sick. We lost one of our boys to pneumonia just ’cause of that woman’s foolish war she got us into.”
The woman looked over her shoulder and whispered again. “Paw said if’n you was her, he was gonna shoot you dead, so I’m glad he was wrong about who you be.”
Claire closed her eyes and feigned sleep, her mind working at fever pitch. She wasn’t clear yet. She was going to have to use all of her skills of trickery and subterfuge to get out of this alive. Of course, she reasoned, they’d be sending search parties for her any day now, so she wouldn’t have to pull the wool over these bumpkins’ eyes for too long.
Triumph in the Ashes
Triumph in the Ashes
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