Silas Meriwether rode into Oakhaven on a Saturday morning and sat tall in the saddle, as his father had taught him, as his grandfather had taught his father.
The mare beneath him moved with the steady rhythm of an animal that had done this a thousand times before. She was six years old, gray, and named Buster, though she didn't know she had a name. She knew the smell of hay, the weight of a saddle, the sound of Silas's voice. She knew these things the way humans know their own faces in a mirror. At the general store, Mrs. Eleanor Gable was buying...
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