2 Works by gozdi
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No matter where life took him, Daniel always had dead men breathing down his neck. He felt it every day, like he was the one man still walking among a pile of bodies. A ghost that hadn’t figured out he should lie down already.
New Mexico Territory, 1879.
Progress is coming, whether the land wants it to or not.Daniel Jacobi has bad luck and even worse judgement. Pulled back into the only thing he's good at, for a company that has no business being trusted, by a man he has no business trusting, he's balancing the guilt he's trying to outrun with the infatuation he's trying to chase. One of these days, he'll deal with how easily he's accepted the wrong man's offer.
Or the right one. He's still mulling it over.
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There is a small number of available courses of action to take when you find yourself locking eyes with a hooded viper. A normal person might, for example, stop dead in their tracks. If they're smart, they would back away slowly, keeping the necessary eye contact to ensure the snake stays put from where it's hissing at them from. Snakes can bite even with their heads chopped off, fully. Something about their muscle memory. Or the brain still running after its connection to the stem had been severed?
Jacobi isn't really a snake expert.
(In which Daniel Jacobi messes up on a whim, and is now paying for it with his sanity. Warren Kepler gives him a framework of discipline and regrets it. After all, when a snake bites you, you start getting nervous even around lizards.)