When she touched its back, its head came up. The other deputies came down the walk, Deputy Dave in the forefront. She grasped the bottle, but before she could pour, a spidery monstrosity with gray-green eyes leaped, hissing, onto the bar. Roland accepted Susannah’s help gladly enough, and together they lowered him down.
Roland looked at her, eyebrows raised over his faded, dangerous eyes. As it was beyond her. The compromises of middle age were distant, the insults of old age over the horizon. Pale green walls rose to battlements that jutted and towers that soared, seeming almost to touch the clouds floating over the Kansas plains.
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