Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground. The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket washed palest blue with lighter places at knees and elbows. His pale eyes were frosted with sun glare and his lips scaly as snakeskin.

The description emphasizes roughness and harshness in both the man and his surroundings: the fence is made from crooked limbs, while the man’s clothes are faded and his lips are scaly. These details make him seem shaped by the rugged place, showing the similarity between the man and the Bad Lands. The passage does not describe his friendships or directly state that he fears the man.

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