San Angelo, A Short Story of Open Wounds - Open Wounds Shorts, #1

Way out west, where the wild wind blows, A young woman has been told it's time for her to go out and make her way inthe world. When Megan finds Tony D'ags, a Righteous Man whose job is toprotect and champion plain folk when they seek justice in the Empire, she doesn't know just what she's gotten herself into. Her mentor seems likesuch a simple man, and his crew a funny collection of misfits brought togetherfrom all corners of the world.
Their first night in San Angelo, Megan finds out that Tony, his crew, and nowMegan herself, have greater responsibilities than political representation. They owe their lives to their hosts, and there are bandits out there ready totake them. So tonight, eating food given to them in joy, playing with children andlistening to the elders list their complaints to her mentor, Megan learns thefirst lesson of being a paladin.
What do you do, when the wolves on two legs come howling? What do you do whenmen who are more animal than not decide they're after the children youprotect, and they'll do anything to get them? Where do you stand?San Angelo is the first in a series of shorter works set in M. K. Dreysen'sOpen Wounds Universe. Here, Megan meets Tony D'ags and begins learningwhat the Empire means to people who don't have a position in it.