Chapter 124

Rawle Powder bought small amounts of weed and hash almost every day and shared his joints with anyone he came across in the Patch. He mainly bought his dope from the huge hippy kid population.
Each time he bought a ten-piece or a gram off someone, he asked them if they knew anyone in town who fit the description he had been given of Kurtis Missions.
It didn’t take long for a couple people to tell him about a guy who’d come to town a few weeks ago and hung out a lot in the Patch a lot.
People said his name was ‘John Dee,’ and he worked at the condo construction site downtown, sleeping on site with special permission of the foreman.
They described him as athletic, thin, with a shaved head, freckles, muscular neck, several missing teeth and one eye lighter than the other.
It was a near-perfect description of Kurtis, except Kurtis had a beard and long hair.
Rawle went to check the story out and quickly learned the John guy quit the construction job a week or two ago after getting his first paycheck.
Rawle talked for a long time with a thick-armed construction guy at the site named Michael who said he’d worked with ‘John.’
“He kind of freaked me out,” Michael said. “He talked about sex a lot. How he’s this big player and made all these chicks cry when he fucked them.”
Michael didn’t know where John had gone, but confirmed his general description and that he had one eye brighter than the other, kind of a whiter blue, making his face look like a husky, which is what Kurtis had. Plus four missing teeth between his two top incisors.
It was a near perfect ID, as far as Rawle could tell, besides the beard and the haircut.
Very exciting.
He couldn’t believe it, but it seemed that he was actually on track. He was actually good at this.
He made friends with Michael and told him to watch out if he ever saw ‘John’ again.
“He’s just this guy. He owes me money. Don’t tell nobody I’m looking for him. He’s liable to run off.”