Wild West - Chapter 7 - Part 7 - 5 minute freewrite challenge

It was after their talk that James and Tom understood the grace he said over the meal. It was then that they also understood why there was no mutiny, and why everybody trusted in and followed the system. They have all been brainwashed.

By the time they finished talking they were alone outside under the parasol – everyone else had either gone to sleep or went to help with the cleaning. Chuck invited them inside to show them to their room, and navigating through the few rooms that they had, they realized the house wasn’t entirely theirs. They shared it with another family, just as big as theirs, and so had to be packed in like sardines when they went to sleep. Bunk bed by bunk bed, mattress by mattress. Saving them was the fact that the men of the two families worked separate shifts and so they could always have the porch to just one family at a time.

Tom and James were brought to a smaller room in which they were to sleep with three of Chuck’s sons, all already laying down and likely also sleeping already. They needed not be told twice to join them in the land of the unicorns – they just dropped down on the mattress next to each other and fell asleep on the spot.