Dead South Page #4

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Hallelujah!

I have found the reason for our

mutual misery and discontent.

You see,

there's simple misunderstanding.

I own all the pigs,

and the possums,

and the rabbits,

and the water,

and every blade of grass.

As a matter of fact,

you're breathing my air,

without my permission.

Collect their weapons.

Nightshade has been the flood

plane of my ancestral home for

years,

and what you're doing

is upsetting

the Jewel of eye tooth,

with your unsightly rabble.

And this will be your

last and only warning.

Our deed is legal and proper.

Leave now, or we'll kill you.

I don't think so.

Why don't y'all come out

and model those bush robes

i heard about?

So you think you going shoot us

all from your little hidey

holes in the trees?

It looks like our bunny rabbits

have grown teeth now.

All right, then.

All right.

But I will be back!

We will be back.

Clear!

The very definition of,

"you shall show

to them no mercy."

- Hilde...

- Double the patrols.

This is all we got.

Maybe our chance

is one in a thousand,

hell, maybe a million.

What if the doc was wrong

'bout the potion, man, huh?

What if they're ain't

no cure for what we got?

No, we... this our one chance.

Our one chance to go back...

To what we was.

We're going to make it back.

We could just kill Stokes,

take he got.

There'd be plenty

for the potion man then.

Right, of course not.

Your delicate constitution

won't permit us banditry.

And nor yours,

prior to fighting confederate.

That's your problem,

little brother,

you think the war's over.

What are you doing here?

Are you afraid of me?

I've seen many

nightwalkers in my life.

That's not what I asked you.

I am.

You seem to be a very

violent man, Beau charmington.

And, yet,

you do not try and escape.

Perhaps you see something else.

Perhaps you see who I really am.

Sh*t! What in tarnation

you do that for!

I hope...

That them pantied ladies

are at least as friendly

as the welcoming committee

outside of town.

These our men

went done gone missing.

Go get everyone.

Right now!

You goddamned ghouls

gonna pay for this.

First rain's a coming

and it's been two weeks

since those boys

stole my property.

And they're still on it.

They're still on it.

And you have done absolutely

nothing to get them off.

Absolutely nothing.

- Well, I tried to bring them

into the fold...

- Into the fold!

...but they're not

exactly ready yet.

Into the fold!

Into the goddamned fold!

Have another drink, filbert.

It is what you do best lately.

The misery of your inaction...

Makes a man want to imbibe.

Royce...

Royce, I'm giving you

'til sun up tomorrow

to remove those boys

from my property.

And that's your last chance.

If you haven't done it by then,

i know someone be

more than happy

to push them off.

This is wrong, Lester.

Stokes is wrong.

Go on and tell it

to the trees ghoul,

I don't take orders from you.

Stokes has got you out here,

attacking nightshade

and you mean to tell me it's

never even occurred to you

that this is senseless,

not to mention dangerous.

How many men of yours

are you willing to sacrifice

out here tonight

on the altar of Stokes' whim?

If Stokes says it gets done,

its gonna get done.

Stokes can't last like this,

Lester, and you know it.

You can be the new Stokes.

Let's move.

Obviously, I've lowered myself

to the height of a fool.

Nothing good

can come of it, brother.

Good already has.

The day suits?

No time.

Get up! Get up!

Get up, you big son of a b*tch!

They sun poisoned.

We gotta get 'em

to the sleeping boxes.

- Come on.

- Come on, Beau.

Come on, we got you.

What the hell is

wrong with you boys, huh?!

I mean, you just...

You...

All you're going to do

is get yourselves killed!

Ain't nobody ever been good to

our family like you, Mr. hilde.

Sorry I didn't stop that man.

I was going to...

Or die tryin'.

Sorry he weren't quicker with

the rifle, Mr. hilde.

I got you, come on.

Come on, Mr. hilde.

Come on, Beau.

N*ggers and squatters...

On the grave of my granddaddy...

...you will rue this day.

Death is too good for you.

I'll give you

the money in these pockets,

if you kill

that worthless ghoul.

Go back to

your daughter, Mr. Stokes.

Say her name one more time.

Come on.

Philomena.

- Just say it one more time.

- My, my.

You are drunk, filbert.

But I encourage you

to continue upon your

course of action.

Some actions do have

consequences, however.

I... never want you to say

the name of my flower... ever.

Ever.

Listen, those boys,

they're gonna start

planting come first rain.

But I want you to

forget about that, you cowards,

you groveling sniggering dogs...

...And just remember the fact,

that those night walking freaks

have hired our slaves

and are paying them with land.

- Land?

- They're paying them with land.

- With land.

- - No.

And what other kind of acts,

grotesque acts of...

And disgusting, vile...

Why they... they're living

together with white people,

how many of those

white people are white women.

- Women?

- N*ggers and white women!

Come on, now, this is our town.

We need to enforce

whatever laws are necessary

or becomes necessary

to uphold and support

our rights and traditions.

And them nightshade brothers'

ain't eatin' those niggrahs

from down in the bottom,

like we gots to.

No, no, them two brothers

is eatin' us.

Me and my men.

They're huntin' us down

like pigs on truffles.

Picking us off one at a time!

Now, that is a violation

of the truce that we're 'spose

to have with the ghouls!

You wait a minute, Lester...

And that niggrah, griff,

helping them to hunt us down!

You're right, Lester.

You're right, and I agree.

Now, it's up to you

to make a decision,

you must decide on what side

you're going to be on.

Or by god...

Well, I'm not going

to fight against you,

but you better pray

to whatever deity it is you got.

Pray that the new blood's

wrath will be merciful,

but I truly doubt it.

Lester, I want you to gather

up all of our friends.

All those undead, goddammed...

...eaters and deputize 'em all!

Go find them in every county,

every place you find them,

bring them in here

and deputize them.

Well, it's about goddamn time!

We will set... now for

a correction in nightshade

of biblical proportions.

We are about to scourge

eye tooth hollow

of all those

race-mixin' n*ggers and ghouls

for the very last time!

That's right!

We must fight!

We must fight

for our rights and traditions!

I'll be back from bachelorville

by tomorrow night

with the seed for planting.

We'll get the seed in the ground

before first rain.

There are two of us, you know?

I always told mama

you could count.

I want to go with you.

Griff can't

protect nightshade alone.

I'll be fine,

just mind the store for a day.

It'll be safe

for a few days, at least.

Stokes is gonna need time

to build up more men.

That'll be at least three days,

i expect.

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