"That's hard." he said, rinsing the cloth and setting it aside before washing all the suds off the medicine seller's skin.
"Been through some places that up and lost their populations. Ghost towns. Strange to see time itself stands still in them sorts of places. Colter was an abandoned mining town we stayed in during May, think if we wasn't half starved and frozen all that time we would have been unsettled more by it all. And I passed through what was probably the smallest town I ever saw, Pleasance, down in Lemonye awhile after our first meetin'. No idea for sure how they was run out. Might have been plague, or they was all murdered for worshipping the Devil. No one around there talks of them and place gave me the creeps so I didn't linger too long to find out."
Arthur then got to work on the other's hair, having him get it soaked through and then worked the soap in turn.
"Lost my momma when I was young, remember very little of her, though she was kind. My daddy were a cruel son of a bitch, and saw him swing when I was eleven. Did your parents make it?"
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"Been through some places that up and lost their populations. Ghost towns. Strange to see time itself stands still in them sorts of places. Colter was an abandoned mining town we stayed in during May, think if we wasn't half starved and frozen all that time we would have been unsettled more by it all. And I passed through what was probably the smallest town I ever saw, Pleasance, down in Lemonye awhile after our first meetin'. No idea for sure how they was run out. Might have been plague, or they was all murdered for worshipping the Devil. No one around there talks of them and place gave me the creeps so I didn't linger too long to find out."
Arthur then got to work on the other's hair, having him get it soaked through and then worked the soap in turn.
"Lost my momma when I was young, remember very little of her, though she was kind. My daddy were a cruel son of a bitch, and saw him swing when I was eleven. Did your parents make it?"