- Frank is still in Mexico; he's been injured fighting in the Revolution(?).
- The shaman El Espinero sees Frank, wounded, and tells him that Stray is looking for him. And in walks Stray with a gorgeous man called Rodrigo. She's got him for a prisoner exchange but it's only partly business.
- The next day Stray shows up again and has exchanged Rodrigo. Her new companion is Ewball Oust, who suggests she go back to arms dealing, and he and Frank tell her what they need.
- The next day in walks Wren Provenance, the anthropologist.
- Ewball and Stray fall for one another and eventually leave together.
- El Espinero gives Frank hallucinogenic cacti. He has a vision of having escaped trespassers (lower-case "t") and defending against invaders.
- A plane flies through; this is the first plane any of these people have seen; "[t]ownsfolk would reckon events for years to come as occurring before or after the airplane came."
- Frank and Wren fall for one another.
- Frank becomes invisible except, El Espinero tells Frank, to Wren--she'll always see him, Still, eventually she needs to get back to work and she leaves.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Where We're At: Part 4.14: Against the Day
Frank
