The Cotton Fields

Chapter 09 – The Cotton Fields

The last hour or so had been filled with chaos and bedlam. Although Joaquim had been trained how to cope with it, nothing can really prepare you for actual combat, you just have to learn how to face it. But as the elder dwarf, Ruperto Isidro, approached him, his fight or flight response ebbed. Somehow, he had a calming presence about him.

“Ah, pardon me, young sir, but where did I meet you?” Ruperto asked.   

“It’s a long story, but you once saved me from crashing my airplane.”

“Did I now?”

The old Katipunero suddenly emerged from the bushes from behind them and looked down at Joaquim.

“Thank you for the head’s up dear dwende,” he said. “We would’ve been in front of firing squad right now if it weren’t for you and your pigeon crashing in on our table.”

Joaquim felt a pang inside him o

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