'Man'd think you was hard of hearing 'cept for hearin' flys fart n' such.' Getting to be familiar, which was still an odd enough feeling after nearly a year. The gunslinger didn't care, listening to the muted chime of his own spurs on rain-sodden wood, the sounds of the town and the folks. Vin didn't answer but for a shrug that could've meant anything, but then he usually didn't answer except maybe one out of a half-dozen times, two dozen if it was J.D. Though he dropped his head when he broke his eyes from that color, he did so with a small smile that had an ache in it and a love that belonged only to her.Ĭhris, pacing him down the boardwalk with an eye to the traffic in the muddy street, glanced over at him 'What you smiling at?' Sure it couldn't be the red-haired woman, Vin wouldn't have given an interest away that easily. Unconsciously his thumb rubbed against his fingers in remembrance of a cool satiny sensation. Jeweled ruby in the wind, glowing wisps in forest breezes, in vivid motion and in dark-shaded stillness swept across fire-lit furs. God, he'd loved that color like he loved the high morning air in his lungs, and he loved every one of the hundred bittersweet images that came in answer to the sight. This was a shade or two darker, he saw at second look, but it was near enough. It was the blood-red hair that snagged his eye, that color rich and strange that he'd only known once in his life. Wexler, Alan: Atlas of Westward Expansion.Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Sandoz, Mari: Crazy Horse, The Strange Man of the Oglalas.Hutchens, A.R.: Indian Herbology of North America, Shambala Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, 1973.

Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1994.

Adams, D.A.: Tapestry: The Institute for Philosophy, Religion and Life Sciences.

Moved By Silent Hands: Title borrowed from Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's latest 'Binaural'.

And to my new friend, Lynne Smith for beta-reading and valuable suggestions.

Notes: Yakoke, Adrian, for a heart deep and true words cannot say how much you mean to me, and to my writing. This story won the Mistresses of Malarkey award for Best Gen Novella in 2004!ĭisclaimer: The characters used herein, with the exception of original characters (please don't borrow) are the property of MGM and Trilogy. Moved By Silent Hands (Part 1) Moved by Silent Hands by Painted Eyes

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