deathslinger: (WIRE.)
CALEB QUINN. ([personal profile] deathslinger) wrote in [personal profile] curiously 2020-10-01 02:59 pm (UTC)

[ Caleb reads her message but doesn't reply. The phone screen goes dark of its own accord where it rests on the workbench before him, placed well off to the side of his Redeemer which has been partially dissembled for cleaning. Shutting his eyes briefly, he pinches the bridge of his nose and thinks back on the conversation that just took place.

He ought to have refused. Turned her away several times and never let her set foot again on such an inquisitive path, his own curiosity be damned. A bounty hunter needs only to know enough about his quarry to anticipate their movements. Deepening an acquaintance beyond that can lead nowhere good.

And yet—is she just someone he hunts now?

With a shake of his head and a sigh, he continues wiping down the pieces of the Redeemer with a cloth, resolved not to think more on that.

Though the building Caleb appropriated and made into a workshop is a walk of mere minutes down the road from the saloon, it's still somewhat hidden. As decrepit-looking as the rest of Glenvale and windowless, its entrance is boarded up and padlocked during a trial. Outside of one, he keeps the door open whenever he's working within, unwilling to shut himself inside a stifling darkness. It admits just enough sunlight to illuminate his workbench and a small forge on the other side of the room. Various tools gleam dully from where they hang on the walls. Crates rest under the workbench and in the far corners, some sealed and others showing a jumble of equipment ( including a few flashlights ). A couple of toolboxes gathered in the aftermath of trials sit on shelves, their contents neatly sorted.

Zarina surely hasn't seen this place. She might not even find him here. But Caleb isn't inclined at all to stop his work and head over to the saloon. She's already interrupted him for too long for his liking with her incessant questions. ]

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