Thread: The Untamed: Revisited (Katy1008 & CrimsonMaster )

Katie bought light in Sacramento. There was no point in buying a load of things there when she would just need to carry them to Tucson. And it wasn't as if Tucson wouldn't have shops. Not that Katie wanted for that much. Fancy dresses hadn't been her thing for a long time. In fact since that day when Jack Crenshaw had finally taken her ranch and changed her life forever, she had never owned a dress or a skirt. So she simply bought a change of clothes, tossing her old ones, took a bath at the hotel to wash off four days of dust and then dressed in her new ones. She did that at various stops along the way which meant that there were no bulging saddle bags. Katie wasn't that impressed with Las Vegas and told JP that in her view it was never gonna amount to anything. Who is ever going to want to come here? Her view of Tucson was a little different. Tucson was big compared to what she was used to and she was sure that for the most part she would be fairly anonymous here. She looked around at each of the buildings that JP pointed out to her, mentally trying to make a note to remember each on in relation to another. She guessed it might take her a while though. She took note of a hotel that was the closest to where JP's office was and decided that she would get a room there and make that her permanent residence. She brought her horse to a halt immediately next to JP's outside the Marshal's office and climbed down. She noticed as a few people looked initially obviously just interested in the fact that someone had ridden in with JP, but then she saw them look again as they realised she was a woman. Jake seemed equally surprised and a little unsure of what was happening but Katie imagined that JP would explain it later. Katie took a mug of the fresh coffee from him and got a grand tour of what was an office smaller than the jail she had back in Victorville. The cells looked a little bigger though - and a little more secure if she was honest. She booked into the Grande Hotel and got a quiet room at the back of the hotel on the second floor. There was a place to eat downstairs and a saloon was right next door, one of many up and down the main street. The room had a large bed with clean sheets. There was a wooden set of drawers and a closet and a large mirror on the one wall. Katie didn't think anything about the mirror. Even now she didn't know about the mirror that wasn't a mirror in Room 2 of Raf's saloon. After she had unpacked the few things she owned, she headed out and took a walk up the main street. Again there wasn't a shortage of looks in her direction. A woman dressed like she was was not a sight often seen. As she passed each saloon, there always seemed to be one or two guys who looked at her a little longer than others. Sometimes one would tells her she should come inside and have a drink. She smiled and politely declined. She headed to the bank and made sure that everything was in order for her funds to be transferred from the bank at Victorville and then she stopped at the Telegraph Office and sent a message to Ben telling him what she had done. Transfers would be made into his account just as she had promised. Katie then returned to the hotel where she was meeting JP for some lunch.