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  1. Rec 27

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    A solitary stranger saves Arthur's life and later joins the gang.
    Or, An alternate introduction to Charles Smith.

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Arthur shifts his aim. Hovers on Colm’s haggard face, slightly out of focus due to the sheer distance. And Colm - somehow - glances up to his right. Directly at the glint of the rifle scope.
    For a split second, Arthur looks him in the eye.
    He flinches back. Footsteps clatter behind him, skidding on the rock. He turns, and the butt of a rifle smashes into his head.

     

    Set during and after 'Blessed Are The Peacemakers' in Chapter 3, a bid to parley with the O'Driscolls goes disastrously wrong. Charles takes it upon himself to find Arthur and bring him home before he succumbs to days of torture and imprisonment.

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    11 Feb 2026

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    Mary visits Arthur’s grave for the first time in the late fall, before the reaching snow comes any further down the mountains, white fingers of ice stretching long over the rocks and boulders and turning the air bitter and cold.

    The next time Mary visits, early in the spring of 1901 when the ground is wet and muddy from the melting mountain snow, she finds, to her great surprise, that someone is already there.

     

     

    Mary Linton meets Sadie Adler.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    Arthur scowls and moves to put the paper away, but a headline catches his attention: TRAIN ROBBED BY O’DRISCOLL GANG, PINKERTONS ON THE HUNT, screams a front-page article.

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    In the Grizzlies, the gang doesn’t run into the O’Driscolls -- and they don’t rob Leviticus Cornwall.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    The last shot is accompanied by the trail of a cry, shrill, angry, fearful. Arthur lowers his revolver. Blinks. Tongues at a bloody tooth from getting hit while strangling an O’Driscoll, spits red mucus onto one of the bodies on the floor.

    The crying starts up again, as if sensing Arthur’s confusion. For a moment, Arthur thinks it must be some poor lady these savages have taken alongside the house, but quickly knows it to be untrue. It’s too—wet, pointless in a way only the young can manage, knowing that something is wrong but not knowing what. Just a shout, not the bellowing anguish of someone who knows what god-awful situation they have been put in.

    “Christ,” he says, once, twice. “Christ.”

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    Arthur accidentally adopts a baby, and, despite his best judgement, ends up starting to raise him. He falls in love with Charles along the way.

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    03 Feb 2026