The story telling lasted most of the night, it was extended after Jimbo and Veronica found out that the man named Max that Red was talking about was also the one they had ambushed in his home in Denver. After that that bit of knowledge came out both Veronica and Jimbo seemed to thaw noticeably towards Red.

"I never liked what we were doing to Max. I hated Nancy when she bit his wife. That was the very moment I decided to kill her." Jimbo said.

"I'm glad you did it, I don't think I could have and she needed to die. She killed me. She killed you." Veronica added.

"She sounds like a woman who had it coming, but couldn't you just vote to go somewhere else?" Red had heard Nancy's ideas on how the structure of her group was to work.

Jimbo shook his head, "No the others were still hers, she had some pull with them, mentally I mean. I think she was stacking the vote to do what she wanted."

"So she was betraying you even as she made it sound like a partnership. That's a bad basis for cooperation."

"So Max was okay when you last saw him?" asked Jimbo.

"Yeah, he wanted to go after his kids, but I sent him straight east with the cop."

"She didn't last long in the fight, didn't you take her out Veronica?" asked Jimbo.

Veronica nodded, "But you got the prize, Nancy."

"Easy to defeat someone when they don't know you're not on the same side. Last I saw Max he was pointing a gun at my head. For some reason he let me go." Jimbo paused for a minute and looked at the other two, "I just had a crazy thought."