JULY
Cimarron, New Mexico
Early Morning
Chainsaw and Dr. Hyde walked down the somber street of
Cimarron. The light breeze stirred Chainsaw's trench coat
around as he walked. Dr. Hyde smelled of Jasmine; her
black, hip-length leather coat accented her figure in tight
blue jeans. Chainsaw had found himself noticing her figure
more and more as of late, as if she had some sort of entrancing
hold over him. Chainsaw realized that She had been talking
for some time now,
Dr. Hyde: "So what do you think?"
Chainsaw: "I think you look lovely today."
Dr. Hyde: blushes, " I mean the old mill, do you think we can
see the town from up there?"
Chainsaw: "We'll just have to go up there then, wont we?"
Dr. Hyde: Sighs exasperatedly, " Come on!"
Dr. Hyde drags Chainsaw by the hand into the historic mill.
The mill has the appearance of a historical site that everyone
knows about, thus no one bothers to go there. Cobwebs cling
the corners, but the cases that display old maps of the area are clean.
The curator, who looks old enough to have made the maps, drowses in
a tall backed wooden chair. Chainsaw and Dr. Hyde creep past him and
venture up the dusty stairs to the attic. Dim illumination seeps into the
room from the wooden slats on the window behind a pair of tailors dummies still
modeling old clothing. An old gilded bird cage stands in front of the
window. Boxes are strewn about the floor and two overturned crates seem to be the
only pieces of furniture suitable to sit upon.
Dr. Hyde: "look at all this stuff. It must be a collection of historical
artifacts from the town."
Chainsaw: "Old dusty junk too good to throw away, but too crappy to
keep."
Dr. Hyde: "Help me move this birdcage so I can look out the window."
Chainsaw slides the birdcage to the side revealing the slatted window.
Dr. Hyde trips over the trail of the dress on the tailor's dummy and falls
into Chainsaw's rugged arms. Chainsaw overbalances and topples the tailor's dummy.
They collapse onto an ornate quilt, first flushing, then giggling.
WATCH
Chainsaw: "Watch what?"
Dr. Hyde: "I didn't say anything Stan."
LEARN
Dr. Hyde: "Ow. The messengers want something."
Chainsaw: "Something is digging into my back."
Chainsaw reaches under the quilt and pulls forth a large stag handled
Bowie knife in a hand tooled black leather sheath with an ornate design.
Chainsaw unsheathes the blade and it glimmers dully in the light form the window.
Dr. Hyde: "Wow, that's a really large steak knife."
Chainsaw: "Well, whatever the Messengers are on about, we should go find
Dr. No."
Dr. Hyde: "He should be out on the Scout range looking at the cows and
mountains and stuff."
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Out on the range, Dr. No sits on a rock looking up at the mountains and
the
clouds going by.
Dr. No: Was telling Heather worth it? At least I don't have to hide what I
do from her anymore. If she can only understand why I have to do what I do...
Chainsaw and Dr. Hyde walk up to Dr. No.
Chainsaw: "Scenic pasture, Dr. No?"
Dr. No: "It was. What do you need?"
Dr. Hyde: " We found something very important. You have to come see it
now!"
Dr. No: "Where at?"
Chainsaw: "That old historic mill place."
Dr. No: "You didn't break anything did you?"
Chainsaw: Becomes smugly indignant, "Not me, we just found something in
the Attic. We were trying to get a better view from the window..."
Dr. No: "Great you probably busted the wedding scene. That had shit in
there Bill Gates couldn't replace."
Chainsaw: "What?"
Dr. No: "That's one of the things in the attic. A recreation of a wedding
that took place between a Union soldier and the Daughter Lucian B.
Maxwell. He didn't want the mirrage to happen, and was lookin' to kill
anyone who planned diffrent. Happy ever after as the story goes."
Dr. Hyde: "How romantic, coming together under such adversity."
Chainsaw: "We just moved the Tailor's dummy and the gilded bird cage, and
then fell over onto this decorative quilt..."
Dr. Hyde: "and then the Messengers stared acting up when Chainsaw found
this big silver knife thingy..."
Dr. No: Sigh "Well take me to this knife."
Chainsaw, Dr. Hyde, and Dr. No Walk over to the decorative Quilt.
Dr. No rights the tailor's dummy and carefully straitens the wedding
dress.
Dr. No: "You're lucky that this shit isn't damaged."
Chainsaw: "If it's so friggen valuable, they should of had a sign, or
something."
Dr. No: Points at the Keep Out on the wall behind them near the
gate to the fence, " Like that one?"
Chainsaw: "Doh'!"
Dr. Hyde: Retrieves the large silver knife, "When we looked at it, the
Messengers started talking to us."
Dr. No: "Hmm, looks like it's been here for a long time. Huh, silver
blade, must be for show. Silver is really soft and makes a crappy blade
material. I think we should leave it alone."
Chainsaw: " I suppose there's no harm in that. I certainly wouldn't want
to pay for breaking it."
Dr. Hyde: "Just keep an eye out for weird things going on."
Dr. No: "Lets go back to St. James where Chainsaw wont break anything."
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