Greatwater Lake rewind

Her query gave him pause. He regarded her at length for some time, as an equal. Mordecai did not question that her pride was bruised more than her body. He weighed and balanced things. Considered the inevitably that there would be those that would leave with their upheaval.

"I don't know, he said at last. And that was the truth of it. He didn't know. He couldn't have said that he knew what would come of anything. "What do you think you should do?" His earnest question focused that spotlight on her then, and he waas more than curious what was bubbling in her head, and the contents of her heart.