I wasn’t sure what to do since they had come all this way, offering to help us. I didn’t want to send them away.
“Would you excuse us for a minute?” Elias asked.
So he turned around and walked just inside the house with me.
“That’s too many people. We can’t take that many or they’ll die.” I said.
“I know. What are we going to do?” Elias asked. So I sat there thinking about it for a minute.
“Well, what they are doing is honorable. I don’t want to throw that back in their faces. We need more people here to protect the castle and Grayson when we leave.” I said.
“Alright. How do we decide who comes and who stays?” Elias asked. So I stood there thinking about it for a moment before I came up with a solution.
“Alpha trials.” I said.
“What?” He asked.
“Alpha trials. We put them
