As they pulled up to a red light, Vince finally spoke."Let it go, Brendan." Why?" Brendan couldn't keep the snarl off of his face. "Those fucking cowa...ds left me to rot. Simpering, spineless toadies: that's what they are. They disgust me. I thought they were my friends and my colleagues." Let it go," his father repeated in a soft, strong voice."Why?" Because I don't want you to end up like your mother who's as bitter as bitter can be. You are better than that. I raised you to be better than. He honestly expected me to answer them, which was a completely different take from asking them just to embarrass me.He was maybe three years older than me, then again maybe not. He told stories about college, so if he had finished, he started business at twenty-two just like me. Unlike me, he seemed to have been building his business for at least three years.While he was working to get his business off the ground, I had been in the two year tech school. So we might be about the same age. It had. The Baron will,” before he could finish, an arrow appeared in his left temple. Killing him instantly, I tried to sense whomever it was like I had before. I got a life heading away briefly before they left the range of my power.“I can’t feel anyone anymore. Someone passed the range of my power, heading away from us just as I picked them up. I didn’t even know an archer was there.” I told the others dejectedly. “If you guys gather the bodies, I’ll go get pointers from Shalyndria on fire magic so. I invited Jen and Rich a few times so he would have someone to talk to while waiting for me to become available. I didn't know what he did on the other nights.During dinner he would respond to people talking to him, but he was reserved. He told me he was trying to put it all together to figure out what my father's plan was. I continued to argue there didn't seem to be a plan.I found out, because he told me, he had been spending time talking with Sabrina. He said she was a friendly person and.