Mess Hall

I nodded. "Yeah, of course. Baby, are you coming?" I asked Jason.



"Either that or I can start showing you around, either way man," I said as I started to help clean up.

"You go show Brett the pictures and I'll let Jack show me around. You're safe here, Faye."

I smiled and kissed him. "I know. I'll see you in a little bit," I said and got up. I kissed him again then Brett and I headed back to the house.



"You ready Jason?"

"Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go."

"I'll take you downstairs first, show you what all we have down there." I led him over to the door and I lit the lantern before carrying it downstairs. "Well, what do you think?"

"Wow. It looks great Jack."

"Thanks. We've worked hard on it, and we found a way to store meat so it doesn't spoil. We've got a pretty great garden too."

"I can tell you guys have worked your asses off on this over the years." I said.

"Yeah we have, but it's definitely been worth it. Let me show you the rest of the place." We walked back upstairs and I put the lantern out before taking him out to the garden.

"So you can get your garden's to grow pretty well out here?"

"Oh yeah, take a look," I said as we went out behind the Mess Hall. "See the irrigation system? We dug it from the river out to here, so the garden's well watered, and with the natural sunlight, they can grow pretty big."

"I bet you have enough to last you through the winter months and then some."

"Oh yeah, definitely. And we're right by the desert. It gets cold in the winter, but it doesn't snow and the water doesn't freeze, so we have fresh water year round.

"Sounds like a good deal to me. What would you like Faye and I to start doing tomorrow?"

"You guys just got here, you don't need to worry about doing anything right away. Settle in, get your house the way you want it, spend time together. In a few days you can start helping clean out the rest of these houses. We've never messed with them, but I'm thinking it might be a good idea to fix them up, just in case. And there's the garden to work on, hunting, fishing, whatever you're good at really."

"Alright that sounds okay, I know Faye will be wanting to fix up the house more."

I chuckled. "Women always do. I hope more people come out here, there aren't any other women. She might get lonely for female companionship."

"Hell, im lonely for female companionship." i muttered, laughing as i cleaned up.

"In that sense, we're all lonely for female companionship," I said and laughed.

"Yeah, i mean ya'll are my boys, no doubt but nothing beats a soft body at night." i groaned and said i was going outside. I grabbed my owl and my hat and went out. "come on matilda, lets go see whats out tonight." i said as i let her take off into the night.

"I guess you guys do get a little lonely out here every now and then." I chuckled "It's funny when you're young you want all of the women and then as you get older you just need one."

I chuckled. "Very true. You're lucky to have Faye. I think some of the guys were jealous of you at dinner," I said and chuckled a bit.

"I guess I better watch it, Brett might be moving in on me right now." I chuckled.

I laughed. "That's one thing you definitely don't have to worry about around here. Everyone's a gentleman. In the... roughing it, kind of caveman sort of way," I said and laughed.

"You bunch of barbarians, imagine how crazy you all would be if a slew of women showed up one day."