He let it go as the animal closed in. Sometimes late at night he heard the coyote's howl echoing up the pass. A champion animal. We'll go put this kid in seven thousand, see how quick he starts keeping house with one of the heavies.
He was new, a transfer out of Foothill Division. Five times. From the barrio to that nice big ranch with his own personal guardia and half the cops in Baja on his payroll. It had never occurred to him that a grown man would not recognize a strigil and he summoned his slave to fetch the one he had left in the wrestling room.
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