“We will be staying, and perhaps we can get us all out of this mess yet.” Belyn decided for them all. Raoul looked about to say something, but Keldron's icy stare shut him up and finally he nodded in rueful agreement.
“If you are staying, then so are we,” Yerdu announced from the steps to the deck below. A flash of gold showed that Joleen was with her also. “You will not cast us aside when it suits you all to play the hero, Kel.”
“I can, actually,” he disagreed, “and I will. Captain, these ladies will be going with the rest of the tribe, willing or otherwise. If we have to bind them then so be it, but they are not to be left on this ship.”
“You would not dare!” Yerdu erupted, her outrage filling the decks and making many of the sailors grin.
“If they would not, I would.” It was Malcolm
