"Well," he says with a smile, "Marie took me to see the McDowell mountains in Arizona. Just for a while, on account of how I was missing home. I might go back sometime. Maybe even visit a couple other worlds."

He looks wistful, giving Hunter a lopsided smile. "My best friend back home. Jack Bondurant. Knew him since we was little. We both lost parents around the same time in the Spanish flu, and I reckon just sorta...bonded or somethin'."

"His brothers were a little like my brothers, too, some days." He reaches into his pocket and pulls out the casing from a shotgun shell. "He gave me this," he says with a grin. "Picked it up after he saw Floyd Banner at a shootout."