"In time rose... In time" he smiled, Wrapping his arm around her shoulder as they walked up the path to the cliff.
The clan was sprawled out underneath rocky outcropings just to the north of the cliff face. There was a cave there, blocked off with 'dangerous' signs and a metal grate. There was also an old lighthouse tower there, abandoned and wrecked in a storm a hundred years ago. Between the two places, the entire rest of the clan, barely thirty members out of over 200 living in the mansion where safe, because the savages that took over the place did not know about inactive safehouses, only the active ones. This much was explained by lorenzo moments later.
"Darius...came close, my boy." he began, sitting there in a makeshift chair int eh corner of the caverns first room. He had bandages on a bloody arm, broken ribs, and a bum leg. He had fought like the devil to protect the clan...he was the only one who survived the basement being raided.
"What happened master, how did they do this, were there that many of them/" he pleaded, letting go of rose and kneeling infront of him, a hand on his good leg. despite their fight. lorenzo was still his mentor.
"They overpowered us.. i wish it was untrue." lorenzo looked uneasy abotu his next words, pausing a good long time first.
"They... they were individually stronger than us. not a one of them is dead." he continued. " my pride.. as a warrior.. is gone." he wheezed, hanging his head low.
Jack bowed his head too.
"hey rose.. i think.. they need soem time." warren said, usherign her out into the lighthouse. there was food up there, a younger man was cooking a few turkeys on a spit, gentle smoke rising up the stairs tot eh higher broken levels of the lighthouse.
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"Warren tells me the change is comign fast." lorenzo said once rose was gone.
"Yes.. it happened twice in the past 48 hours alone." jack responded.
"we did manage to retrieve all the keys to the vault before we escaped." his master said, pattign his head.
"Uncle... what do we do now.. two clans livign this close.. we have tog et out of here...but.. are we going to be runnign forever?" jack was gettign a littel depressed.
"I mean.. lorenzzo, Rose has lost everything. And i'm not even sure whose fault all this is..."
Lorenzo chuckled a little and made jack look at him, holding the boys chin.
"Let us resolve, that we have all been in the wrong place at the wrong time." he smiled weakly.
"The elders being dead means that we need to elect new Members. now darius...jack. It's time we discussed something BOTH of us have been trygin to postpone as long as possible.
"Yes." jack said, standing up. " Yes it is..." he said, staunch resolve on his face.