Pecos Bill is old, centuries old or wind-and-skies old or whatever, and his original horse has run wild with other wild horses and has many descendants now. One of Iron Sixâs tasks over the years of her training is to tame and train a foal, which grows up to be her horse.Â
And thus, she can learn the ways of the horses and the language of the horses, and teach them all sorts of things, so when she goes into town she can see plain as day which people the horse is afraid of, or she can teach the horse to recognize certain phrases that other people might say as a command to bite whoeverâs saying it, and the result is people thinking the horse can understand human speech and talk to Iron Six.
One day some guy tries to steal her horse while sheâs in a bar. Jumps on and digs his heels in and the horse just turns around, looks at him like heâs being stupid, and finds something interesting to nose at on the ground.
Dudeâs friends laugh at him, dude gets angry, dude starts kicking at the horse, horse stands there calmly and then suddenly rears and dumps him off behind.
Dude gets up, furious and humiliated, borrows a whip from his friends, and is about to strike the horse with it and the horse calmly walks away.
More laughter, more fury, and thatâs about when Iron Six shows up in the doorway.
She doesnât go for her guns. She walks up to the guy, takes the whip out of his hand, he goes for his gun and she decks him. He hits the ground with a broken nose and the gun goes bouncing into the dust.
She picks it up, looks at it, sends it sailing into a nearby water trough. âGarbage,â she says. âNow, about my horse,â she says, and whips the would-be horse thief half to shreds.
Tosses the whip back to its owner, tips her hat to the rest of them, and her horse is right there when she turns around to climb on.
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