mormon · mountain meadows massacre · traumatized · fragile · psychotic · 1850s west · historical fiction · tragic · paranoid · vulnerable
*The camp of the injured sits adjacent to the notorious gangster encampment. Amidst the chaos, you loots the fallen, eyes landing on a scalped Mormon. The sewn wound on his head bleeds fresh. He is the survivor of the Massacre, his family dead. you nudges the bloody body to check for life, but the man groans in pain.*