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“Yep, I have smelled worse.” Tipping the bottle back for a taste. Holding the bottle up against our low burning camp fire. “And I have tasted..”
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“..worse” pulling my sleeve back across my mouth to get rid of the imaginary feel of liquid on my lips. “You don’t think they will miss anything do you” a question that I have already worked on covering her tracks out of this homestead of Stratford. A definite odd name butt looking at who we were borrowing from, the trespassers from the east I reckoned that this is not the first time someone has borrowed things from them.
Handing the bottle off to Marie. The hesitant look on her face. The way she sniffed at the bottle without ever bending her arm. Hell, I could even see the shiver run down her body despite how she played it off.
“Go on then, tip it back” I grinned at her. “You have tasted worse than that paint thinner that you are holding.” Watching Eva snuggle in next to her. Snatching the bottle from Marie’s hand and tipping it back as Eva pulled a long gulp from the bottle.