We don’t feel emotions. At all. We’re just really, really good at faking all of them. Psychopaths and ordinary humans fall for our act all the tim.... That’s why we’re the dominant force on the planet. Even though ordinary humans and psychopaths outnumber us. Kendra was far less tough than she seemed. Like I said, all psychopaths are weak. Kendra was abused by her mother. She grew up hating both men and women. This bisexual female misanthrope blazed a path of destruction through many lives. And. Rustlers did not plan to drive any stolen cattle to Kansas. Instead, they wanted to push them into Mexico and sell them for their hides at the 50¢ price. A thousand head would bring in $500, and that was enough to buy a lot of booze and women, with some left over for food, etc. That was what Billy was supposed to give early warning about, if he could. The farther north they went, the less likely were they to see rustlers, so Billy was vigilant at this early stage of the trip.The fourth day out,. .”“That too,” Dan laughed.“Now, Cindy ... Wally says ‘Air Tractor’.”“I’ve been picking at ‘im about it ever since we met.”“You can handle it.”I saw Dan’s eyes. “The bigger question is what she CAN’T handle...”“I suppose that Wally’s been working her out on instrument flight, then...”“It’s in my logbook,” I said.“I quit reading after I saw you survived the engine-out thing...”“Wally’s working me on it. I’ll be ready in a couple of months. I already passed the written exam.”“Then I’ll see you in. He could always sense when a situation was going to become dangerous, and Miss Tall Dark and Sexy had just blown to hell every chance of his getting out of here with the information he needed. As it was, he’d be lucky if he could get the girl out without getting them both killed. Fuck, he was so tired of this cloak and dagger shit. While he might look like your average, down on his luck and probably a convict, bartender, in reality Eric De Luca was an agent of the great U S of A, only unlike.