As we reached the side of one grouping of stalls, I spotted Jaw standing in front of Bryce. He had one steel-toed boot planted on the same wooden bench that Bryce was seated on, his broad gut almost in the boy’s face.
Huh. Did he already save the kid?
Beside Bryce was a teenaged girl with bleached blond hair, who was almost lying across the bench in her attempt to keep back from Jaw.
Another victim, or young villain? Either way, this is a pretty reasonable reaction to Jaw.
There was nobody near enough to Bryce to be his kidnapper, nobody with a weapon, no handcuffs or chains.
Yeah, I was about to comment on that, but I couldn’t figure out how to word it so I decided to move on in case the rest of the paragraph corrected that impression.
So did Jaw already get rid of the kidnapper, or… is there not one? Did Bryce come voluntarily and join the Merchants? That would be quite a twist. Poor Sierra if that’s the case.
Shit. I didn’t like what that suggested.
I don’t think I do either… except as a plot twist and story development. I actually think it’d be kinda neat, though unfortunate.
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