"Not if they are good brothers," he says. "I'd not allow any of mine to torment eachother so. So I do hope the eldest among his own do not shirk his familial duties and keeps the rest of them in line if they decide to take things too far."

"I'll pass it along because she deserves to know why this has been done to her. What she chooses to do with it after is entirely up to her and I'll not try to sway her one way or the other. Though if she does forgive him she's a far kinder soul than I."

Taking anothers freedom in such a manner was abhorrent to him. The boy had not meant ill, he knew, but it was an ill-done thing no matter his intentions.