Paco Valdez

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You stay where you are for almost an hour, waiting for your headache to settle into more of an annoyance than a throbbing torture. When it is at last bareable, you stand up and walk slowly out of the barn.

A tall skinny man in a little hat is standing right outside waiting for you. It's probably a good thing that you didn't try to escape. He tells you that Jorge is waiting for you inside the farm house and he points you in the appropriate direction. You follow his instructions and walk slowly into the house via the back door.

You enter through the kitchen and a man in there tells you to go to the living room, pointing the way for you. Within the living room are two people, the little mexican known as Jorge, and Claire, Paco Valdez's woman. She has two black eyes and a split open lip. You banged her up pretty good the other night.

Jorge looks your way. "Sit down, senor." He says to you. You comply. The three of you sit in silence for a while, Claire's eyes are burning through you.

Eventualy Jorge speaks. "Mr. Valdez will enjoy taking his revenge on you. He will enjoy it very much I think. Miss Claire tells me you raped her."

This comes as a bit of a shock to you. Now she's saying you raped her? You figure that would get her out of trouble with Valdez, eh? She looks the part for sure, you having beat the living shit out of her. She looks at you with a look of triumph in her eyes. She knows she's in the clear now, while you are, in all likleyhood, a dead man.

"This does not look good for you, mister." Jorge says to you.

It sure as hell doesn't, you think.