"Honestly, I don't think we have a choice. We leave them here and hope for the best or we take them with us and someone is going to be babysitting them the entire time. Not exactly something I'd want to do, or have someone else do, if we're stuck in a fight."  He closed his eyes and sighed and rubbed his forehead in frustration, seeming to age years with that simple gesture. "Right. We leave them here. Taking them with us will put us in far to much danger."