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“How is the patient?”
“Impatient,” Lucy said. “He wants to get out of bed, but I just don’t think that is a good idea right now. The doctor said he needs to rest for at least a week.”
“There is no way I can lay in bed for a week,” Micah called out.
Dillon and Micah exchanged pleasantries and then Dillon’s face got serious.
“What in the hell happened?”
“Dean, Lucy, and I shifted and went for a run. We checked for cameras and nearby hunters, but we didn’t see any. Apparently, we missed a tiny camera hidden on a branch. They were waiting for us when we got back,” Micah explained.
“There were four of them,” Lucy piped up. “They had guns. They said that we could go quietly with them or they would kill us. We had no intention of going anywhere with them. One of them pointed a gun at me. Micah leapt toward him and was shot. Then, all hell broke loose.”
Dillon squinted his eyes shut, heaved a deep breath, pressed his lips together and ran his fingers through his hair. He clearly wasn’t pleased.
“What happened to the hunters?”
“They are at the bottom of a mine shaft,” Lucy said.
Groaning, Dillon said, “This is going to cause a lot of problems.”
“It couldn’t be helped. We wouldn’t have fought if we hadn’t been forced to. It was an ‘us or them’ situation.”
“You shouldn’t have been up on that mountain shifting anyway. You were warned,” Dillon growled.
“Whoa, back the truck up,” Micah said, in a hard voice. “First of all, is that what you would say to an innocent tourist who happened to be in the area and not known of the lore? Second, are you really blaming us when we were the ones ambushed? Frankly, I don’t know how you guys live in a prison, anyway, afraid of your own shadows.”
Micah’s face was bright red and the vein in the side of his neck was beating hard. His white knuckled fingers gripped the sheets.
Dillon looked at Micah and then sighed again.
“You’re right. We spend so much time trying not to antagonize the situation even further that we have created a prison for ourselves. And, of course, I’m not victim blaming, although it sounds that way. I’m just really frustrated because this is going to mean a lot of problems for the shifters in the area.”
“You guys need to stand up for yourself.”
Dillon’s shoulders slumped and he rubbed the back of his neck.
“I wish it was that easy,” he said. “I’m glad to see that you are okay. I need to get back to the store.”
Lucy could see that Micah was completely pissed when Dillon left.
“I can’t believe his attitude. They have all just given up here.”
“We don’t live here,” Lucy said. “We haven’t lived their struggle that has been going on for so long. We haven’t had to deal with the constant threat of hunters hanging over our head.”
Micah’s chest heaved and he nodded.
“I guess so.”
“We can’t judge until we go a day in their heads and hearts.”
“Save the social media memes,” Micah said grumpily.
“Ouch,” Lucy said.
She didn’t take offense to his words, knowing that he was in pain, he was frustrated at being forced to stay in bed, and annoyed with the situation in Ivy Springs, even though it wasn’t his fight.
Clara came by that evening with a bunch of sandwiches and baked potato soup, which was Lucy’s favorite.
