“Release Her!” The Nameless Gunslinger Bellowed at 3 Armed Thugs After Seeing What They Had Done

“Release Her!” The Nameless Gunslinger Bellowed at 3 Armed Thugs After Seeing What They Had Done

Release her. >> Release her right now. The rope creaked. The cottonwood leaves hissed and the river smelled like sunbaked mud. Three armed men laughed right in the open like the prairie owed them a show. A young woman hung by her wrist, boots scraping dust, fighting to breathe. A fourth man stood back, counting time, counting fear, counting leverage.

 The nameless rider stepped out of the shade, poncho, heavy hat, low voice like iron. Nobody moved, not even the horses. Then the drifter shouted again, louder, meaner, and the town heard it carry. Release her. Now, let’s get back because men don’t just ride into a moment like that by accident, and women don’t end up under a cottonwood branch unless somebody decided paper mattered more than a human life.

 Kansas in the spring of 1,888 looked gentle if you didn’t know how to read it. The grass was bright, the sky was clean, and the wind rolled over the Flint Hills like a hymn. Folks in town called it a new beginning because folks love believing that. I’ve seen it before. But the land was still haunted by that January storm they later called the children’s blizzard.

 It came hard, it came fast, and it didn’t care who was ready. Cattle froze where they stood. Fences vanished under white silence. And the strong men who bragged about winter learned they were just men. When the thaw finally came, it didn’t bring peace. It brought hunger and debt and ugly ideas. That’s when land got mean.

The railroad men were pushing west and the survey stakes were showing up in places nobody expected. A telegraph operator in town started receiving messages that sounded polite but felt like threats. The clerk at the county office began locking his ledgers with a wax seal like ink could defend itself. In those days, a deed wasn’t just paper.

It was a weapon that didn’t need powder. In a small frontier town called Cedar Bend, the law was carried by one man, Sheriff Wade Concincaid. He was broadshouldered, quiet spoken, and stubborn enough to believe the badge meant what it was supposed to mean. Wade kept his deeds in an iron safe in a courthouse that smelled of lamp oil and old wood. He believed in process.

 He believed in warrants. He believed in bringing a man in breathing. The prairie didn’t always cooperate. Sheriff Conincaid had a daughter, Lillianqincaid, 24 years old, sharpeyed, hard-headed, and tired of being treated like a glass ornament. She’d grown up hearing spurs on a porch and hearing whispers in a saloon because the sheriff’s family never gets to be invisible.

 She knew how to ride, she knew how to shoot, and she knew how to keep her chin up when men talk down to her. That confidence can save you. It can also get you hurt. That afternoon, Lillian ignored a warning. She rode out past the last fence line toward a creek that ran shallow and sweet, and she picked wild flowers like the world was ordinary.

 I’m not proud to say it, but the frontier punishes ordinary thinking. Six men took her right at the edge of the grass. They came in quiet the way wolves do. There wasn’t a sermon. There wasn’t a warning. There was just the smell of sour tobacco and the scrape of boots, and a sack of burlap dropped over her head.

 Rope bit into her wrists, and the world became dust, fabric, and muffled breathing. The men who grabbed her weren’t random drunks. They were desperate. And desperation is its own kind of intelligence. Their leader was Harlon Crowe, a cattleman who used to be respected until the blizzard took half his herd and all his patience.

 He didn’t talk like a villain from a dime novel. He talked like a man who thought the world owed him compensation. Crow wanted what the sheriff had locked away. He wanted the valley deeds, the strip of land the railroad would pay for once the tracks cut through. If he could force Sheriff Conincaid to hand over those papers, Crow wouldn’t just recover, he’d rule. That’s what greed does.

 It pretends it’s survival. Crow sent three of his roughest men ahead to stage the first lesson. Folks in Cedar Bend later remembered them by their habits, not their real names. One was called Barrel because he was thick and mean, and he moved like a man built for pushing others around. One was called rat because he smiled too quickly and his eyes never settled.

 The third was called preacher because he quoted scripture while doing things scripture never excused. They dragged Lillian to a cottonwood by the river close enough that the town’s livery stable smell and the distant clang of a blacksmith still floated on the breeze. They wanted people to hear her then feel helpless then talk.

 Fear spreads faster than news. Lillian didn’t beg them. She cursed them through a throat that felt dry as straw. She kicked dust into Rat’s boots. And when Barl tightened rope too hard, she stared at him like she’d already decided he wasn’t worth fearing. Men like that hate a woman who won’t fold. They didn’t just want to frighten her. They wanted to display her.

Preacher looped rope over a branch slow and careful like he was setting up church curtains. He told her it was temporary. And I’ve never trusted a man who says that with a smile. If this story stayed with you, then take a second and let me know. Drop a like, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment. >> Then the creek began.

 Rope on bark, bark under strain, a branch complaining. That’s when the nameless rider arrived. He didn’t come riding fast. He didn’t come yelling like a hero. He came with a slow, measured approach, the way an old ranchand walks into a corral full of nervous stock. His horse was buckskin, steady ears forward, reading the scene the way a good horse does.

 The rider wore a poncho that didn’t match the season, faded green with dark threads frayed at the hem. It hid more than it showed. He looked 43, or maybe older, because the West can add years like weather. His face had the tired set of a man who’d slept in bad places and woken up too often with his hand near a gun. His eyes weren’t cruel.

 That’s the part folks misunderstand. They were calm. They were measuring. I’d bet he hadn’t planned to stop in Cedar Bend at all. Rat saw him first because rats always look for movement. Rat turned, squinted, then laughed like laughter could turn a stranger into nothing. Barl kept working the rope.

 Preacher tilted his hat as if this was just another Sunday disturbance. The nameless rider stopped about 20 ft out because 20 ft is where truth lives in the West. It’s close enough to hear a man breathe and far enough that a mistake can still be corrected if anybody’s smart. Nobody there was smart. The drifter’s voice came out low and rough like gravel pulled across dry wood. Release her.

 Rat chuckled. Barrel grinned. Preacher made a soft little sound of disappointment like a man hearing a wrong note in a hymn. You’re a long way from home, old man, Rat said. His voice tried to sound steady. It didn’t. I’m exactly where I need to be, the drifter answered. Lillian turned her head toward that voice, hair stuck to her cheek, eyes bright with anger and hope mixed together. She didn’t say thank you.

 She just watched because the frontier teaches you not to trust miracles. Barl stepped forward, hand drifting toward his revolver. And I’ll tell you something plain. The men who reach first usually die first because they believe the story in their head more than the reality in front of them. The drifter didn’t move fast. He moved correct.

 His hand came up, his gun spoke once, and Barl’s revolver spun out of his grip, landing in dust. Barrel staggered, shocked more than hurt, staring at his wrist like it had betrayed him. Rat’s smile died. Preacher’s eyes sharpened. Now it got serious. Rat and Preacher drew quick and sloppy because fear makes hands clumsy.

 The Drifter slid off his saddle low and smooth, using the horse’s cover because smart men don’t stand tall when lead starts flying. Shots cracked and dust jumped and the cottonwood leaves fluttered like they were trying to escape. Lillian’s arms burned, rope biting, branch groaning. She twisted her body trying to get her boots under her trying to buy seconds. Seconds matter.

Rat leaned wide around the tree trunk, aiming where he thought the drifter would be. He guessed wrong. The drifter fired and Rat dropped his gun, then dropped to his knees, then went still in the dust. No speech, no drama, just silence arriving. preacher swore and you could hear the panic now.

 He backed up, grabbed Lillian’s rope, and yanked her forward like she was an object, putting her between himself and the drifter. That’s when I saw something back when I first heard this story, and I still remember it like a brand. Lillian didn’t freeze. She didn’t collapse into helplessness. She looked at the drifter and she made a decision right there.

Preacher’s revolver pressed against her head hard enough to make her flinch. He shouted, “I’ll do it. I swear I will.” The drifter didn’t plead. He didn’t bargain with fear. He spoke calm like a man reading weather. Let her go and you might see the moon. Preacher’s hands shook.

 Barrel was groaning, clutching his wrist, trying to get his breath back. The river kept moving indifferent as always. The cottonwood creaked again because the rope was still under tension. Lillian shifted her weight. She drove her elbow back hard into Preacher’s ribs. He grunted, startled, and his gun dipped for one heartbeat. One heartbeat is forever.

 The drifter rose from behind his horse, aimed and fired. Preacher’s gun flew from his hand and Preacher spun away, falling into the dirt. Then it was quiet except for Lillian’s breathing ragged, angry alive. The drifter stepped forward and cut her down fast, careful because he wasn’t there to be gentle.

 He was there to be effective. He steadied her with a rough hand, palm calloused grip. Sure. You the sheriff’s girl? He asked. Lillian nodded once. She didn’t cry. She didn’t perform relief. She just stared at him, taking inventory like a person who’s lived with danger long enough to respect it. “What’s your name?” she asked.

 The drifter looked past her toward the open prairie where dust already hung faint on the horizon. He hesitated, then shrugged like the word didn’t fit anymore. “Names don’t matter much,” he said. “Not out here.” “That answer told me everything.” Because men who refuse a name usually have one they’re running from or one they buried along with someone they couldn’t save. I’ve seen it before.

 They didn’t have time to talk. The wind carried a new sound, distant but growing. Hooves, many of them. Harlon Crow would have heard his men were failing even if nobody rode to tell him. Men like that feel loss in their bones. We need to move, the drifter said. Crow won’t let this go. Lillian tried to stand straight, but her knees weren’t listening.

 Adrenaline fades fast and then your body remembers it’s made of meat and bone. The drifter helped her onto the buck skin and he climbed up in front because that was the only way. One horse, two lives, one direction. They rode toward the brakes where the land turned rough, where limestone cutouts could hide you from open sight.

 Behind them, dust thickened like the horizon was boiling. Crow was coming. The drifter didn’t ride reckless. He rode smart. He kept to low ground. He crossed dry washes. He avoided open ridges. His horse breathed heavy but steady. Lillian held the back of his poncho knuckles white, refusing to slip.

 The sun dropped low, turning grass into gold. It was pretty, and that’s the cruel joke of the West. Beauty doesn’t mean safety. Sometimes it means you’re about to bleed for it. After miles, they found a shallow cut in the rocks, a place where an old creek had once run, now dry and cracked. A cave sat back in the stone, not deep, but deep enough to hide fire light if you were careful.

 The drifter led the buck skin inside, then turned and looked at Lillian like he was deciding something heavier than direction. We can keep running, he said. Or we can get ahead of them. Lillian swallowed throat still raw. My father will come, she said. He’s the sheriff. The drifter gave a faint, tired smile. The law is a thin rope, he said.

 It snaps easy when strong men pull. That line landed hard because it was true and because Lillian didn’t want it to be. He built a small fire deep in the cave belly using dry wood that didn’t smoke much. The flame was low, almost ashamed of itself. It threw orange light across Lillian’s face, showing dust streaks, rope marks, and a stubborn set to her mouth.

 “Why do they want you?” the drifter asked. Lillian stared into flame like it might answer for her. “They want what my father keeps locked up,” she said. “The valley deeds, the railroad route.” The drifter nodded like he’d already guessed. paper and steel,” he muttered. “That’s the new war.” Lillian looked at him then.

 “You’re not from Cedar Bend,” she said. “No,” he answered. “You’re not a deputy,” she said. “No,” he answered again. “Then why did you stop?” she asked. The drifter’s jaw tightened. He watched the flame and for a second his eyes went far away. “Because I’ve seen this before,” he said. “Because if I kept writing, I wouldn’t sleep again.

” That’s a confession, and old men like me respect confessions. Outside the cave, the wind shifted. It carried the faint sound of voices, then the faint clink of tac. The drifter went, still listening with his whole body like a man listening for a rattlesnake in tall grass. “They’re close,” he whispered.

 Lillian’s hand found a jagged stone near her boot because fear makes you reach for something, anything. Her breath came short. If this story stayed with you, then take a second and let me know. Drop a like, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment. >> The drifter leaned near the cave mouth, eyes scanning moonlit shapes.

 Then he saw them. Five riders moved along the dry creek bed, slow, careful, searching for tracks, searching for a horse, searching for any sign of warmth. One carried a lantern, and that yellow swing of light felt like a blade. The drifter pinched dirt into the fire, smothering it. Darkness swallowed them.

 Lillian’s heart thumped so loud she swore the riders could hear it. “Stay quiet,” he whispered too. He could feel her warm breath on his neck. She gripped a heavy, jagged stone in her hand. She wasn’t going to go down without a final fight. She was truly her father’s daughter. Now listen, close friends of the frontier.

This is where the legend begins to harden like steel. The story of Colton, Bane, and Thorne is heavy. It is a story of a man who had absolutely nothing and a girl who had every single thing to lose. If you’re enjoying this ride through the old territories, do me a favor and hit that subscribe button now. Join our growing posy of storytellers.

Tell me in the comments what you would do. Is greater than is greater than. Would you ride into the tall grass for a stranger? The lantern light drew closer. The riders talked low and their voices were sharp with frustration. Crow’s men weren’t just angry, they were embarrassed, and embarrassed men do reckless things.

 The Drifter’s eyes flicked side to side counting. He did the cold math. The kind of man learns when he survived too much. He couldn’t fight five men straight on. Not an open ground, not with a tired horse. Not with a frightened woman. So he didn’t fight straight. He slipped out of the cave, moving low, moving quiet, stepping where stone met stone, not where gravel would betray him.

 The wind helped carrying scent away. The lantern swung, then paused as one rider leaned down to look at tracks. The drifter appeared behind that rider like a shadow, and the rider didn’t even get a second to understand his mistake. The drifter took the man’s rifle, took his ammunition belt, and vanished back into darkness before anyone turned.

 Then a voice rang out, angry, confident. Crow himself or one of his lieutenants who wanted to sound like him. I know you’re in there, drifter,” the voice yelled. “Give us the girl and you can walk away. I’ll even give you a 10-minute head start.” Lillian felt her stomach twist. Even she knew that was a lie.

 Men like Crow don’t offer mercy, they offer bait. The Drifter waited, listening for the rhythm of fear. He heard a pistol [ __ ] He heard another man whisper, and he heard a boot scrape stone. The lantern swung again, searching. The drifter raised the stolen rifle, not aiming at a man not yet. He aimed at the lantern. The shot cracked, glass shattered, and darkness slammed down like a door.

 The riders cursed, suddenly blind. In that darkness, they fired wild because men hate being unable to see. Muzzle flashes popped brief lightning and black. The drifter stayed still, counting. He let them waste their courage and waste their bullets. When the firing slowed, when the clicking of empty chambers began, he moved.

 He fired clean, controlled, ending threats without speeches. Two shapes dropped and the rest panicked. Horses snorted, riders shouted, and the creek bed turned into chaos. Crows men pulled back, not because they had morals, but because they had fear, and fear is the one honest thing left in some men. The drifter returned to the cave, mouth, breath steady, eyes tired.

 Lillian stood there with the stone still raised like she didn’t know how to put it down yet. “Are they gone?” she asked. “For now,” he said. “But they’ll be back with daylight and with more men.” Lillian swallowed. “Then we have to reach my father,” she said. The drifter nodded. “We ride before dawn,” he answered. “Waiting is a luxury for the dead.

 They left the cave in darkness, pushing the buck’s skin across cold ground. Twice they stopped only long enough to let the horse breathe because the horse was doing the only honest work in that moment. Near morning they reached a town that sat along an old trail route, solid stone buildings, a water trough, and a telegraph wire that sang faint in the breeze.

 The sign on the main street reading. The drifter led the horse into a livery stable, quiet backstall, and he paid the stable man with coin that looked like it had traveled too far. The stable man didn’t ask questions. Good frontier men rarely do when trouble walks in wearing dust. They found a boarding house run by an older widow named Mrs. Hattie Row.

She took one look at Lillian’s wrists, one look at the drifter’s hard eyes, and she just nodded. She gave them stew thick and salty, and she gave them a room with shutters that closed tight. That stew tasted like mercy. The drifter didn’t sleep. He sat by the window watching the street. He watched Moon slide, then watched dawn pale the sky.

I’ve known men like that, and it’s not bravery, it’s punishment. It’s a man who doesn’t believe he deserves rest. Lillian sat on the bed, holding her wrists, staring at the floor. “My father will come,” she said again, like saying it would make it true. The drifter spoke without looking away from the street.

“Maybe,” he said. “Maybe not in time.” There it was again. and ride versus legal because the legal thing, the proper thing was to wait for Sheriff Conincaid to let law do its slow work. But the right thing was to prepare for the wolves that were already moving. At sunrise, the drifter saw dust, not a small line, a rolling cloud, 10 riders, maybe 12, coming down the main street like a funeral parade.

 At the front, Harlon Crow, black stallion under him, faced tight with fury. He stopped to pass her by an old man carrying a sack of flour. Crow put a pistol to the man’s head and he shouted, “Where is she?” The town froze. Shopkeepers backed into doorways. A blacksmith’s hammer stopped mid swing.

 Horses in the hitching line stomped uneasy, feeling the change in air. The drifter turned from the window and his voice came out flat like cold iron. “It’s time.” Lillian went pale. “We’re trapped,” she whispered. A man is only trapped if he stops moving,” the drifter replied. He opened a crate in the room, and inside was a long rifle he’d quietly arranged along with a handful of rounds he’d found in the livery. “He checked it with calm hands.

” Then he turned to Lillian. “Can you shoot a pistol?” he asked. “My father taught me,” she said. A girl has to defend her honor. The drifter nodded once. “Good,” he said. “Don’t hesitate. The first one to blink dies first.” They moved through a back stairwell through a narrow alley that smelled of coal smoke and old trash.

 And they climbed to the roof of the general store. From up there, the town looked small, and Crow’s gang looked like ants with guns. Crow shouted again. He demanded the sheriff’s deeds. He demanded the girl. He demanded obedience like the prairie was his courtroom. The Drifter set the rifle down, and he took aim, not at Crow’s head, not yet.

 He aimed at the hitching post near the riders, and he fired. Woods splintered, horses bolted, riders cursed. The neat parade shattered into frantic movement because men can handle fear, but they can’t handle losing control. Lillian took position near a chimney stack pistol in her hands, breathing hard, eyes focused. She fired once, missed, then fired again, and a rider slumped off his saddle into the dust.

 She didn’t smile, she didn’t celebrate. She just reloaded because she understood something now. The drifter moved along the rooftops, shifting angles, keeping Crow guessing. He wasn’t just a man with a gun. He was a storm that knew where it wanted to land. Crow’s men spread out. Some duck behind a water trough. Others tried to flank through a side alley.

 The drifter caught one of those flankers with a clean shot, and the man dropped and didn’t get back up. Crow screamed, “Burn it down.” Because when men lose power, they reach for fire. That’s when Cottonwood Crossing became a different kind of town. Smoke started. Panic started. Mothers grabbed children and ran. Men crawled under wagons.

 The church bell didn’t ring because nobody wanted to announce anything. The Drifter saw Crow change tactics. Crow was smarter than barrel, smarter than rat, smarter than preacher. Crow realized the Drifter was the center. So Crow sent four men into the general store, pushing through the front, hoping to trap him on the roof.

The drifter ran out of roof. He dropped through a hatch into the loft, landing hard on straw. Boots thundered on the stairs. The space was tight, and long rifles were clumsy in tight spaces. The drifter switched tools because smart men don’t stay loyal to a single method. There was a struggle in that loft, brief, and ugly, and I won’t dress it up. It wasn’t heroic. It was survival.

One man went down. Another stumbled back and the drifter shoved him away, then climbed out the window and dropped to the street because staying put would have gotten him cornered. Down below, a scream cut through everything. Crow had found the boarding house. He dragged Lillian out into the street, one arm around her shoulders, using her like a shield pistol raised.

 Lillian’s face was white with dust, eyes wide, but still burning. The drifter stepped into the open street, slow, steady, like he was walking into judgment. Wind swirled dust around his boots. Crow smiled because Crow believed he’d finally won. “Drop it, drifter!” Crow yelled, “Drop the iron.

” The town went quiet because every soul knew what that moment meant. “I’ve seen that silence before. It’s the sound a place makes when it doesn’t know if it’ll live through the next breath.” The drifter’s voice rose, and it wasn’t calm now. It was a bellow sharp enough to cut. Release her. Crow laughed, but it sounded thin.

 You’re a dead man,” Crow said. “You’re walking on borrowed seconds.” “Maybe I am,” the Drifter replied. “But you’re not walking out of here with her.” Crow’s finger tightened. Lillian’s breath hitched. The Drifter held his hands near his sides, not reaching too fast because too fast would end it. Lillian did something then, and this is the part most folks forget because they like their stories to be one man doing everything.

 Lillian remembered her father’s lessons, and she remembered her own stubbornness. She drove her heel back hard into Crow’s shin. Crow jolted grip, loosening for one heartbeat. Lillian twisted her shoulders, jerking his gun arm offline. That heartbeat was enough. The drifter moved, not with magic, not with youth, but with certainty.

 His gun came up one clean shot, and Crow’s weapon clattered to dirt. Crow staggered, shocked, suddenly human. Crow’s men saw it, and their courage cracked. They weren’t loyal. They were hired. They were hungry. They were afraid. Some fired, then stopped. Some backed away. Some turned their horses and ran. Because when the leader falls, the pack remembers it’s made of cowards.

 The drifter’s knees finally bent just a little because the body can only borrow so much. Lillian grabbed his arm, steadying him. Her hands were small, but her grip was strong. She looked at him, eyes wet face, dust stre. We did it, she whispered. The drifter nodded once, breathing shallow. Yeah, he said. We did.

 Two hours later, Sheriff Wadeqincaid rode into town with deputies, dust on their hats, anger on their faces. He took one look at Lillian alive, then one look at the street, and he understood what he’d missed by minutes. WDE walked to the drifter, and the two men studied each other like mirrors. One war law, one war consequence.

 “You saved my daughter,” Wade said. His voice was thick, held tight. “I did what needed doing,” the drifter replied. Wade looked toward the courthouse, toward the iron safe, toward the legal future Crow tried to steal. “You saved more than her,” Wade said. “You saved this county.” Then Wade did what sheriffs do when they want to make sense of a man.

 He offered the drifter a badge. “Cottonwood Crossing needs a man like you,” Wade said. “A man who doesn’t blink.” The Drifter stared at that badge, and I could feel the weight of the choice. Legal would be taking it. Legal would be settling down. Legal would be standing in the courthouse with a lantern and a ledger and pretending the world could be controlled.

 Riot was something else. The drifter shook his head. A badge is a shiny target with a pin, he said. I’ve had enough targets for one long life. Lillian stepped closer. “You’re leaving?” she asked. The drifter looked toward the west, where the horizon was purple, where the wind always seems to promise more trouble. The trail doesn’t end here for me, he said.

 He mounted his buck skin slow because pain had finally caught up. Lillian watched him, and there was sadness there, but also understanding. She wasn’t a child anymore. She’d been forced into adulthood by rope and fear, then pulled back by grit and timing. “Stay safe, Lillian Conincaid,” he said. “Don’t let the grass grow too tall around you.

 Keep your father’s iron in your brave heart.” Then he rode out. He didn’t look back. Men like that rarely do because looking back is how ghosts grab you. The town watched him become a dot, then a speck, then nothing. The prairie swallowed him the way it swallows all stories sooner or later. Lillian lived a long life. She married a steady man, not loud, not flashy, and she raised children who ran through tall grass, laughing like the world had never been cruel.

 But every spring when the Kansas green turned deep and bright, she remembered rope and wind and a voice that bellowed like thunder. Release her. Now listen to me, friends of the long trail. This story is a permanent reminder for us all. Courage isn’t about the total absence of fear. It’s about standing up when everyone else sits. It’s about protecting the weak from the wicked.

 It’s about the tempered iron in your human soul. If this journey moved your spirit today, do me one final favor before you go. Like this video and subscribe to our camp. We have many more tales to tell you. We have more dust to kick up in the wind. We have more legends to uncover in the dirt. Thanks for riding the trail with us today.

 It’s been a true honor to share the path. I promise you our next story will be bigger. We’re heading to the gold fields of California where a silent miner finds something dangerous, something far more valuable than raw gold. Until then, keep your powder dry and ready. Keep your eyes fixed on the horizon.

 And may your trail always lead you safely home. Before we part ways, a quick note from the trail. This story was carefully researched using historical accounts, frontier records, books, and classic western literature from the American West. Like many frontier tales passed down through generations, certain characters, conversations, and events have been adapted for storytelling purposes.

 The goal is not to recreate history word for word, but to preserve the spirit lessons and human struggles of the era. Any scenes involving violence, conflict, or criminal behavior are presented within a historical and educational storytelling context. They are not intended to glorify harm, encourage dangerous actions, or celebrate unlawful conduct.

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 This is your storyteller signing off. Stay brave in the face of the storm. Stay true to the light within. The west is waiting for you to arrive. Good night and God bless your journey. >> If this story stayed with you, then take a second and let me know. Drop a like, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment.