Aurum glances back at the man with the garbage bags, but doesn't turn around. Instead, she walks forward until she is on the edge of the front yard. Seeing Jack, she sends a telepathic message to him. ~There are better ways to do this. I could find out the truth, and, if what you say is true, we can keep him held until the police arrive.
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To Johnny Blair: ~We don't know what really happened. We only know that Jack is prone to leaping to wild conclusions, and is not known for making good decisions. Admittedly, the laws in place for parental abuse don't always work, but we are not exactly in a place to be challenging those laws, and, again, if someone gets hurt here, it's going to be bad publicity. People have enough reason to hate us.
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To Johnny Blair: ~We don't know what really happened. We only know that Jack is prone to leaping to wild conclusions, and is not known for making good decisions. Admittedly, the laws in place for parental abuse don't always work, but we are not exactly in a place to be challenging those laws, and, again, if someone gets hurt here, it's going to be bad publicity. People have enough reason to hate us.
