“If you choose to stand with the monsters, I have to ensure you fall by their side.”
No sooner did Lavern finish saying those words that a very large number of the Brotherhood members- almost twenty- appeared out of thin air in the dining hall. They surrounded Richard and Lorraine on all sides with their weapons drawn and ready to shed blood.
"Nephew, please,” said the older Winchmore, “take this last chance I'm offering you to reconsider. Surrender Cyrian to me and I swear that no harm will come to you or anyone else."
"No," Richard returned almost instantaneously; he didn’t need to give it any thought. "Uncle, handing Cyrian over to you is the outright definition of harm. So-” he put himself too at the ready “-if you want to take it, you'll have to kill me first."
The Brotherhood did
