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"Weren't that somethin? Weren't she somethin? Just look at her! Perched in the middle of such awful danger and still havin herself a blast. And maybe the mountain didn't at once toss her into oblivion because it too was enjoyin the show."

End of Part One! I love these 3 crazy kids and 4 beautiful horses!

"Sure, yes, maybe it was just Landry woolgatherin, head in the clouds, rocks in her head. Maybe it was that wink in her heart again to just dare somethin insensible. Or not. Maybe this time it was Kalin, this boy catchin up with her now, who'd already made for her lifetimes out of hours."

"Curiously, in the moments before his death, Cavalry's mind in the crucible of all that awful pain, ... Cavalry still found for an instant that moment of peace and freedom when he was with, of all people, young Russel, the two of them just ridin along, free from the past, free from the future, free."

Fuck you, MZD.

Finally, 200 pages in -- only a thousand more to go!

"Kalin couldn't say what unsettled him more: the now obvious deadness of his dear friend or that even in death the dead might still know fear."

This is going to be the best book I read in 2026.

Yeehaw.

"Stories are a rebalancin of injustice, whether enacted within their narrative or purposed to enact certain reactions by the listeners. Stories are the lexical fashionins of vengeance. At least the good ones are."