“They should have let us in sooner,” McCready stated.
“We should have forced our way in,” Haley said.
“That would have looked terrible,” Tom said. He was feeling a little bit more like himself after the fire – not much, but a little.
“Better than letting people die.”
“I’m not disagreeing.”
“Sure as hell sounds like it,” Haley continued.
“That’s not what I said at all,” Tom said, spreading his hands out wide to show that he wasn’t trying to argue with Haley. Now that things had settled down around the Forest, Haley was slipping back into his old ways – tough to get along with and ready to argue with everything.
Tom didn’t hold it against him. He’d known Haley for years; it was just what he did when he was stressed or backed into a corner, which it often seemed like they were. The
