Blackwater Val
“Wait a sec . . . didn’t Michelle do a paper once on Chief Black Hawk or something? Sure! In high school, wasn’t it?”
“You got it. I helped her with it, too.” Deadmond tried to smile, but couldn’t quite manage. “Chelle and I, yes,” he murmured, the broken thought trailing off as he caught himself, cleared his throat and continued. “Anyone who was sick, or even suspected of being sick, they were rounded up here in the Val. Pious old Augustus Shaw himself led the charge on that, I guess, during the frenzy. Though I’ve read he was probably certifiable by then, a genuine raving lunatic. People were rounded up just the same. They didn’t know what was happening to them, see?” The old man sniffed,
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