The old town, Lanoway, never had visitors, it never had outside issues and it never ever had new residents. That all changed when a man named Burban Laney entered the town. His intentions unknown but his demeanor was stern. Everyone in the town was weary of ol’ Laney. He was quiet at first, making a living in the town quickly, which upset the other towns people. They weren’t used to new residents and sure weren’t ready to accept one, especially not Laney. Laney was in the town for two weeks when the sheriff suddenly disappeared. Everyone instantly assumed Laney was the cause of that, they would go to him and ridicule him. Some wouldn’t even sell to him nor trade. Laney was struggling to make do with this living. He starved until someone was nice enough, he couldn’t shower unless he used someone else’s well, he couldn’t make fires in his house because they would take all the wood from him. Laney got fed up not soon after they treated him that way, as he started getting death threats if he didn’t say where the sheriff was. Laney decided to take over the sheriffs office and find out for himself, or at least get the townspeople off his back. He stole the sheriffs horse and began looking around the towns boarders for him, even traveling to near by towns. He came across a few crooks on his journey which led to him finding the sheriffs dead body in the desert next to a cactus. It seemed as if the sheriffs was thrown on the cactus again and again. To Laney, there seemed to be no struggle and as if it was self inflicted. Laney covered his body and burried him, knowing he couldn’t carry the body a town and a half over. When he returned to Lanoway he told everyone the news. Most didn’t believe him until he showed them the scars he had gotten from pulling the spikes from the cactus off the old sheriffs body. The town mourned, sheriff had no family and no predecessor. With no hesitation after that realization Laney declared himself the new Sheriff. No one knew how the old Sheriff had died, suicide or not. The town was still weary of Laney, but everyone was silent about their concerns.