“Fine. You stay here. I shall return when I’ve found food. But when you all faint from hunger later don’t think you can just feed on me.”

“But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided.”

“Fine. You stay here. I shall return when I’ve found food. But when you all faint from hunger later don’t think you can just feed on me.”