The No-Quarter Quartet: The New Team Member
It stood a little ways off from the southern bazaar of hooktown, and was just far enough away to keep people from coming there for an afternoon of food, and just close enough to keep people from lodging that wanted to get away from the noise.
The No-Quarter Quartet: The Deadwater
The walls of hooktown were far behind them now, though if he looked back he knew he'd see them in the distance, a stony pimple on the horizon as the sun started to sink behind it. ahead of them, the plains stretched out in a great flat expanse.