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The three men rode out of the mission later that day, on three horses that didn't have names. Before they left, they set the church on fire. It wasn't much, but it was something.
The Kid and the Conjurer still looked a little woozy. They swayed in the saddles, this way and that. But it would pass, the Stranger thought. Most things did, sooner or later.
- Lavie Tidhar, The Escapement, p.192
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