All those around me were dead. The corpses of my family strewn across the dried grass of the plane, reddish dust dried on the crop as this hatted man meandered to and fro on his steed. My throat was dry, my eyes wet. Tears careened onto my prairie dress as I gaped at the atrocious scene before me.
Before I knew it I'd been lassoed by the originator of the chaos and hoisted onto the back of his horse. Wrapped in his rugged, hairy, oh so manly arms. My breath quickened as he wordlessly growled into my braided (now untidy) hair. I was too scared to speak, eventually he steered the horse to a ranch with a modest number of cattle, a barn and a house. There was nothing to be seen for miles. In my ropes I turned to face my murderous captor but before I could speak he placed a hanky into my mouth and everything went black.
My head span wildly, stars flitting in my eyes as the lids above them fought their way open. I was on a bed stripped of all and any garments tied to each corner with the same rope I'd been kidnapped with and the man had a bandana over his mouth so most of his face was obscured. He had removed his hat and shirt so he was only wearing the covering and his trousers. Had I not been terrified I would of laughed at the spectacle.