A Dusty and Sun Lit Sort of Place

The owner of the store had allowed the transient to wander about unmolested while he gauged the nature of the man, if he was coherent, how intelligent, sober, or not. He decided he would let him look around as much as he liked. Strike up a conversation. The man might tell him the story of how he wound up wandering the streets of a tourist town high up in the mountains.