Vasquez reaches over the table for a beer, putting off sleep until he can drink some of this, because it's been a very long day and he deserves it. Not only that, the more time he gets to know Joshua, the better. It's not just for his personal satisfaction, but also because he wants to know for the book.

"You should be able to. I think maybe you're only a little shorter than me, but bigger, so the clothes will hang off me," he says, a tiny thrill going through him to imagine being a cowboy, properly. "I'll get to play the part, it'll be fun."