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Jimmy the time-traveler, while trying to solve a time-riddle his late father left for him, gets accidentally flung back in time, to the year 1871, the days of the Wild West, landing squarely in the middle of a valley of death. He stumbles into a pack of gun-toting rustlers, who capture him. To Jimmy’s luck though, the youngest of the rustlers, Kit Fisher, is not like the rest of his folks.
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When the two climbed the sandy side of a canyon, they proceeded alongside the rocky edge of it, red masses of stone holding tight in one place, thirty feet above the bottom of the canyon or so.
Jimmy rode the horse and Kit strolled in front of them, on foot. The stony surface under his feet was perfectly horizontal, but jagged to the extreme. Walking on it required constant attention. One wrongly taken step could make him stumble and bite the dust. He didn’t want that. So he kept mindful of each step, which tired his leg muscles.
Soon he was so exhausted, he suggested they have some rest. Jimmy didn’t mind, quite beat himself.
The two nestled by the trunk of another lopsided tree, its massive roots clinging to the ground at the top of the canyon, while half of its branches already hanging over the edge. Kit and Jimmy hid under leafy branches, not two feet away from the edge. The view here was stunning.
“Hungry?” Kit asked. Jimmy, who had settled comfortably on the rocks, leaning his back against the tree trunk, looked at Kit questioningly.
“We have food?” he asked, surprised.
Kit gave him a look. He rummaged through one of the saddlebags and whipped out two cans of beans and several chunks of the frying-pan bread.
“Oh, I forgot we had this,” Jimmy said, happy to remember. Kit snickered.
“What’d you do without me? Die of starvation?” he asked.
“Don’t get ideas,” Jimmy declared, taking a chunk of bread from Kit’s hands and biting into it, hungrily. He let Kit open a can of beans, for he didn’t know how. “I have the machine. It’s designed to keep me alive, you know. So I wouldn’t starve to death. I would have starved to near death, and then the machine would think of something.”
“There are 75 eatable plant types in the area,” the machine informed, matter-of-factly. “There are also plenty of eatable animal species.”
“Yeah, if only either of you could catch them,” Kit remarked. The machine kept silent. Jimmy did too.
Kit handed him an opened can of beans and sat down next to him, leaning his back against the tree, same way as Jimmy did.
Jimmy looked at the can quizzically.
“Okay–I’m not quite used to eating without tableware,” he admitted.
Kit grinned.
“Well, you can dunk your bread in the juice and eat the rest of it with your hands,” he said and watched Jimmy’s reaction.
“My hands?” Jimmy asked, confused. “Do you have a sanitizer?”
Kit barely had an idea what a sanitizer might have been. He sighed.
“Here–You can use this instead,” he said fishing out a small knife-fork thing out of his pocket. The metal thing had a cutting knife on one end of it and a three-pointed fork on the other. Quite nifty.
Jimmy took it, examined it and started eating.
“Thanks,” he muttered, between bites.
Kit watched him eat, for a moment. He was so adorable when he was all helpless and clueless. Kit liked that he could teach him a thing or two about life in this time period, of which Jimmy knew absolutely nothing.
Kit started on his own meal then, alternating between dunking his bread in the can juice and tipping the can so that the beans rolled straight in his mouth. No fork needed.
When the boys were done with bread and beans, they settled more comfortably to catch a nap maybe. Kit’s soft strands of blonde hair, his Stetson hat finally removed, brushed against Jimmy’s shoulder as the two sat back to back, leaning as much on each other as they did on a tree.
They both looked at the blue of the sky and the outstretch of the barren land going up to the very horizon.
“Can you tell me more about the future?” Kit asked in a whisper, after several minutes of silence.
“Sure! What do you want to know?” Jimmy asked back, his eyes closed, resting.
“I don’t know,” Kit said. “I’m not even sure what to ask. I didn’t get much sense from those pictures you showed me. But they did look fascinatin’.”
“Yeah, I was fascinated too when I saw the future for the first time,” Jimmy said and added nothing. Kit swiveled his head to look at him.
Jimmy sensed that the boy expected him to continue.
“I was born in the 20th century. 1987. And my dad was originally from the 23rd. But I didn’t find out about the whole time-traveling thing until I was much older,” he explained, leaving the rest of the story out.
Kit kept looking at him. He liked that he was getting a chance to know him better. He wanted that.
“Here,” Jimmy said, taking the machine off of his wrist. He handed it to Kit, without hesitation. “Give it another try. It’s much better at explaining stuff than I am.”
Kit held the machine in his hands, carefully.
“You sure?”
“Sure I’m sure. Just put it in front of your face and it will show you more pictures. They’re called moving pictures, by the way. Or videos.”
“Videos?” Kit repeated, amazed. As he leveled the thing to his face, a beam of light shot out again and spotted Kit’s eyes.
Kit breathed in and out excitedly, several times. And then he relaxed, beginning to really observe and learn. He liked to learn. And he was a quick-learner too. He was proud of that.
“What’s that?” he gasped.
“Automobiles. A nifty replacement of the horse-driven wagons,” the machine explained. “They are also called cars. They will change the face of the world in the next century.”
“Unbelievable,” Kit muttered.
Jimmy looked at the boy. Studied him for a moment. His expression grew serious.
“So–Your brother and the rest of them folks, they are like rustlers or something?”
Kit thought about it for a few seconds, never taking his eyes off the pictures he was watching, more and more new pictures.
“Yeah, a gang of cut-throat gun-toting bandits,” he said, not too proud of it. “My brother’s pretty well-known hereabout. John the Rock. A lot of village people are afraid of him. They bear with him, try not to make him angry.”
“And–How come you’re a part of it?” Jimmy asked, after a moment of hesitation.
“The question is 85% inappropriate,” the machine informed, reproachfully.
Kit smiled. He lowered the machine and the projections stopped. He looked up at Jimmy.
“Well, he’s my brother. He took care of me since I was a little boy.”
Jimmy looked at him questioningly.
“Our dad was shot when we were little and our mom died soon thereafter. She must have caught some deadly illness, or maybe it was the grief. One way or another, it was just the two of us, ever since I was six and John was ten. We were forced to learn to survive. Ain’t no relatives in the entire state,” Kit sighed.
Jimmy looked down, nodded.
“I’d settle down, and get myself a wife and kids, if I had any skill other than shootin’ a gun. But I don’t have any. Maybe one day though,” he added.
“You were thinking about having a wife,” Jimmy asked, his eyes studying Kit’s.
“Yeah. I mean everyone does,” Kit said, without a second thought. “If you’re an honorable man, you ought to have a wife. Maybe one day I will. I’m not cut out for the kind of life my brother has. I don’t like hurting people. And it’d be nice to have a home too.”
“Well, you’re a good-looking guy, I’m sure there’s a million girls who’d be interested,” Jimmy said.
Kit smiled sadly and blushed a little. “Well, hardly a million,” he said. “There might be a couple back in the village.”
Jimmy snickered.
“You dog!” he said, making the boy blush even more.
“No!” Kit protested. “Not like that! I ain’t done any of that nasty stuff. You’re not supposed to until you’re married. You know.”
Jimmy looked away. It wasn’t his field of expertise.
“It didn’t stop your brother,” Jimmy noticed.
“He’s a lost cause. I don’t want to be like that,” Kit answered, his voice obtaining harder qualities now. It showed he was determined not to be like his brother indeed.
“Okay,” Jimmy said and looked at the boy thoughtfully. “That’s a good plan you have there. I hope one day you’ll get all that. A wife and children. Settle down on a farm somewhere maybe.”
Kit gave him half a smile in return. It might have been nice. But he wasn’t sure yet that it was what he wanted exactly.