<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/0e/Corky.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Cordelia “Corky” Hendricks<br/><strong>Faction:</strong>Law Dogs<br/><strong>Date:</strong>May 11th, 1876<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>Afternoon<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Babel’s Tower, in a corner away from the bar.<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Open, Avery, Letty<br/><hr/>Corky couldn’t help but giggle at the mispronunciation of her name, particularly after Letty managed to pronounce all three hundred syllables of her own without a problem.  She bit back a giggle when Letty protested about not being a drunk, and looked up to Avery when he played the gentleman.<br/><br/>“Aww, there’s no call for that.  But naw, she don’t want to spend the night in the drunk tank.  The men there’ll think she’s some kinda … gift,” she said with a scrunch of her nose.  “You know where Nathan Hunter’s house is?  I’m staying there.  He’s got an extra bedroom or two.  If you’ll get her there, she can sleep it off.  Better’n a hard bench an’ I don’t think no one’ll disparage her reputation none.”  She smiled as Mabel set down three plates of food.<br/><br/>She glanced down to the half empty whiskey bottle of her own, and eyed Letty up.  A few inches taller than herself, though they might be of the same weight.  No, if whiskey could upend her like this, she didn’t need to be taken for serious just yet.  She happily pushed the rest of the glass away.  She ate busily while she listened to the two of them talk.<br/><br/>“Speakin’ o’ which,” Corky sighed.  “Someone better get on out to the bridge and turn them that’s trying to stagger across it away.  We’ll get you on back to your horse and your ranch tomorrow, won’t we?”  She squeezed Letty’s shoulder and rose, the plate of food which had been in front of her already looking like Corky might have licked it clean.  “Bring her on by Hunter’s and get her in a bed, and I’ll get her back to her place tomorrow.  Was a pleasure to meet’cha, Miss Aletta Emelda Maria Sanchez.”  She smiled to Avery, then leaned over and brushed his cheek with a kiss, her eyes shining wickedly.  “See you later, handsome devil.”<br/><br/>She ruffled his hair once and then stepped towards the door, a bounce in her hip.  She paused at the doorway as the singing started up, leaning in the archway and hearing the song out.  Corky couldn't really carry a tune to save her life, but that didn't stop her from appreciating one.  She left with all of two lines of chorus lyrics in her brain, and already humming a song she was sure would be stuck in her head for the rest of the night.