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Cobe sat in the dirt and Willem joined him. The boys remained silent and listened to the lawman tell them what the world was like. Trot stroked Dust’s coarse hair, watching and listening as well.

“There’s what you might call ‘remnants’ of an older town beyond them other shit holes. No one lives there anymore, but something tells me you could. It ain’t like the old days, when freaks and howlers claimed everything. This town is so old it ain’t got a name no more. But it was big at one time—maybe bigger than all the land between Burn and Rudd put together.”

Willem made a noise of disbelief with his lips that sounded like a fart.

“Ain’t no town that big,” Cobe said. “There never was that many people in the whole world that could’ve filled it.”

Lawson shrugged. “Not so sure about that. You put all the people, howlers, and rollers in one place at the same time. Who knows, maybe it would’ve been enough.”

“Howlers and rollers ain’t people,” Willem said. “They don’t live together.”

“Not anymore. But from what I’ve seen, I get the impression howlers and rollers—and all them other freaks you kids don’t know nothin’ about—may have been more like us. I suspect we all lived together in these bigger towns. They were called cities back then.”