“You ain’t fooling nobody, girl. I saw the bulletin. That crazy-ass man put a bounty on your head an hour ago. He put our Black asses on notice. Three hundred thousand for any information on your whereabouts. A million-dollar fine for anybody caught harboring you. Said if it’s a man stupid enough to keep you, fines plus twenty years in Huntsville prison. Day for day, hard time. Translation? The official will break his foot off in the hind parts of any man who gets the notion he likes what he sees. Ten years in the fields upon release, if anything’s left of him.”
