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With a nickname like Batman, James expected more from Cesar Güemes, Epifanio’s closest confidant. But he was just a man - as fallible and killable as the next. In fact, when he first heard mention of Cesar, he thought he was called Badman, which would have been accurate, but there was also nothing, as far as James could tell, that separated Cesar from any other bad man. Even his preferred form of torture, teeth extraction, was rather cliche if not pedestrian. But Batman? Surely, that meant something.
Was he a vigilante, cleaning up the streets of Sinaloa, before Epifanio found him? Did he possess a keen sense of hearing, picking up footsteps in the night sooner and clearer than all of the other soldados? Perhaps he looked like a bat with beady, little eyes, sharp teeth, and ears seemingly too big for his face? But it was just his coat… as far as James could determine - the long, leather duster flaring out behind Cesar like the cape crusader’s. The nickname might have been a disappointment, but it told James something very important about the other man, a man who would eventually become, if not exactly an enemy, then at least certainly not an ally.
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- Part 4 of Vague Places