Ben Slightman's teenage son and the first friend Jake makes in Calla Bryn Sturgis - a kind, eager boy who takes to Jake with no curiosity about his uncanny gunslinger gravitas and bonds quickly with him over barn-jumping, Oy's billy-bumbler tricks, and the small adventures the Rocking B ranch makes available. For Jake - older than his years and a long way from the friends he might have grown up with - Benny is the first easy companionship he has known on this side.