Emerald, keeping her arm with Maxine's, walks over to join the others. She wanted to say quite a bit, like<em>'why don't we all visit your brother in the brick house?'</em>but having delegated the role of contact to Garret was happy to let him take charge and make intruductions. Who knows, she thought, maybe the wolf will wait till after they leave to attack the small straw house.<br/><br/>Of course, the big question was, if he did attack should they kill him or leave him hog-tied to a tree to attack the house of sticks after they left?