Compañeros part 3
General Summary
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Twenty minutes after Pitch Noon!
Twenty minutes after Pitch Noon!
The fog clears
from a scene of chaotic carnage.
A Princess to the North!
Bruthazmus Kele bear-rushes toward that area, north of the former corral, where a quartet of Hell Bovines imprison the Princess of this ranch. Following Bruthazmus' lead, Miro Teague and Jesse Devonshire barrel at their best speeds.
No longer Hell Hands, Whippetal Ranch Foremen Bull Hester and Gore Hester are trying to save their employer -- and, ideally, the employer's wife Chica Alston. Adherence to the Ranch Hand Code looks likely to cost their lives!
Are Hell Hands Leather Cobb and Bowser Kotabe even aware of how they are violating the Code that has guided their entire adult lives?
A Princess to the South!
A Hell Hand who called himself "Faith" strides out of Sarsparilla Bunkhouse to obey the command of his fiendish monarch. He has no choice but to attack those who have fled the Greater Hell Bovine's nightmarish hospitality. His possible targets:
- Scholarly monk Lee Chung hides in the thicket just a few steps away from that door. He plans to distract the Lady of the Choking Smog.
- Apprentice Chef leads Liberata Pasquarella to the northern door of Sarsparilla Barn. Chef hears something in the underbrush to his left. Can he get the terrified caravan guard (and apprentice accountant) safely past Tonto the Faithful Cabbage?
- Ex-servant Scaevola Aemula hauls Ghost Harrell toward the Green Giant cactus near the northermost corner of the Bunkhouse. Ghost does not want to leave her Faith behind. Scaevola Aemula may not have noticed Order of Blood Cabbage to Go!, lurking in the shadow of the cactus!
A Clearing in the Briar
Near Sarsparilla Barn, Zhang Sephia, Xifeng, and sorcerer's familiar Spiro fly betwixt the sputtering smoke of the burning haystacks and the leaden weight of the starless sky.
The world smells of ash and sulfur and green, gloriously healthy thicket to the harpy ranger.
All three hear the peppercorn clacking of Briarseed imprecations over the fading songs of Fun and Games.
Three people who were once ranch hands, converted into Hell Hands, enslaved by Farvald Kerner during this battle, are now dying. The evil plant parasite Griefgalls are forcefully ejecting from their bodies.
Spiro is certain that one more lungful of fire breath will be the end of Moo 007.
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