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The portal to hell wasn't anywhere. Clarissa and Roy had walked the whole property over and found nothing. Clarissa didn't think Roy was lying, but she didn't know what to think of people anymore, let alone why they would or could lie, so she was left without too many options. Roy for his part looked sheepish at each new didn't find anything discovery. Clarissa could see how he felt embarrassed, though she was also getting kind of suspicious of him. The whole farm was massive, and yet she hadn't seen another person or anything suggesting other people worked there. And she couldn't even tell what kind of farm it was.
Like he had a barn clearly and animals that had been eaten/killed, but Clarissa didn't understand what kind of farm he was running. He was not producing food based on her not seeing any kind of harvesting equipment, or silos to store it in. As she walked the property she felt a sinking feeling in her stomach the cowboy wasn't who he seemed, or even what he seemed. She hadn't really given him a second look since coming out to his property. He had looked like a cowboy, a big hat, gun on a holster, a sequin shirt. But now that she thought of it, he looked like a cowboy cowboy, like one from before and not a more recent version. They were riding back to his ranch house when she could sense he knew she suspected him.
"You're not super observant normally are you?" She went to pull her gun, but he already had his out, the truck was stopped and it was pointing at her. It was an old timey looking thing, shined up, but deadly all the same.
"What are you?"
"A dragon." He said it so casually it almost caught her off guard.
"What's going on here?"
"Like I said portal to hell."
"That we can't find."
"And don't that make me feel silly, but I'm no liar, and I didn't bring you here for a nefarious reason just to get rid of the portal to hell." He turned the gun around to her butt first to show his sincerity.
"Why didn't you lead with being a dragon?"
"You didn't really ask, and its not like I hide it, look how I'm dressed." Clarissa could feel her face go flush.
"So that's how you knew all those sigils."
"I'm sure you could find them on the internet if you really wanted to, but yes. I am still perplexed by the mystery though Clarissa, I know you don't have the best of luck with my people, but if you are willing I'd really like to find out what happened to that portal to hell."
"Sure Roy, if that is your real name."
"It isn't, but I don't think you're vocal chords can pronounce my real name."
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