Blogtober 2020 Day 11 Entry
“You want to stay with us here?” Meadow asked.
“Yeah,” Phin said. “All we have in our world is a life of crime.”
“Is that where all the money came from?” she asked.
“The Swede was a bank robber,” Murphy said. “We didn’t know that when he picked us up, but the first bank we robbed together, he said if we didn’t help him, he’d shoot us.”
“I guess he figured if we broke out of reform school, we was criminals like him,” Phin said. “But we ain’t. We just want to eat.”
“Is that how the white world works everywhere?” Meadow asked.
“I don’t know,” Murphy said. “That’s how it’s always worked for us. You gotta have money, or you don’t have anything.”
“And we don’t have anything,” Phin said. “But you untied us and gave us something to eat. That’s better than we’ve been treated anywhere else.”
“Is your father an important man?” Murphy asked. “Like, is he chief or something?”
“He’s not the chief,” Meadow said. “But yes, he is important. I’ll talk to him for you, but I’m not making a promise. You’ll both have to talk to him, and then the council will decide.”
“Thank you,” Murphy said.
“We can work,” Phin said. “We ain’t lazy.”
“Stay inside here for now,” she said. “I’ll come back. That much I promise.”
She left the tent, and Phin asked Murphy, “We gonna be Injuns now?”
“Osage.”
“Yeah. Osage.”
“It’s better than what we’ve been,” Murphy said.
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