Intentions

             Franklin Kilburn sat in his office with his morning coffee. Nothing was going right, and it started when the upstart Alpha McDonnell showed his nose in the area. Right before he found two of his men visiting the healer’s cabin, and would be there for some time yet. He didn’t have enough patience or caffeine in his system to handle listening to either of them explain their failures to him. But he would have to hear their reports. He must know how this Magnus fool found such powerful fighters. Another reason to curse not having the non-aggression treaty with them. He could have gained his training techniques, but not now. Not without that treaty.

             Then he still needed to deal with the issue of them hiding Sapphire from them. She’d run away with them and only the gods knew what the girl was telling them. Sapphire was t