What are You Gonna Do?

The three men went their separate ways to do the chores Ebony gave them. Ebony, however, was not the complete focus of everyone’s attention for a rather large number of uncomfortable heartbeats.

Her father, Magnus, and Ran broke the staring contest first and drifted toward each other. Ebony could hear them talking and she felt the bottom of the pit that was her stomach fall out. The men were discussing what to do about Benedict and the others.

Ran wanted him confined until they were safe enough to deal with him. Magnus said he wanted to know the facts, first. Her father, though, was oddly the most reasonable of them all. Though he sighted some freezing reasoning why.

“Hold up, you young fools. Now let’s look at this from a logical standpoint. What is he actually claiming? Then what does he stand to gain from that claim? What has he demanded to get from this claim?”

“He’s rather vague on names and dates.”

“He asked to be left alone