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but he still needs to be careful the next couple days, after that he'll be able to get into as much trouble as any other boy," said Father Marcus before leaving the room.
    "Alec, James is going to write your testimony while I take off your bandages. You just start at the beginning and tell him what happened, no tales, got it."
    "Yes Aunt Karen."
    So Alec told of his fight with Greg and Jason. He left nothing out, the beating weeks ago and the lessons from Ralph.
    "I'll take it from here Alec. I'm calling the town council to have them arrested and decide a fair punishment.” Mr. Phillips stated in an even voice as he got up and left the room.
    "I'll take you back to your room so you can rest Alec." Karen told him.
    Alec carefully sat up and stood with Karen’s help feeling a little light headed. Pulling his pants on he got them tied well enough. Feeling more than a little embarrassed as he let Karen help him dress.
    Jake was waiting outside the temple as they came out and took his other arm.
    "You looked pretty bad there for a while, Alec. Father Marcus did well by you." He said with a big smile.
    "Yah, he did. Now I'm just exhausted."
    Alec stood there at the top of the steps and looked down the street. Things seemed brighter and more alive. He could hear each bird singing clearly and even noted buzz of a bee as it flew past. Alec wrote it off to having been injured and headed down the steps with help.
    "Well, you should have seen Mr. Phillips come out. He wasn't even down the steps when he started yelling for the other council members. I haven’t ever seen Mrs. Baker stand up and take orders from him like that. Soon as she spoke to him she was a busting down Master Smiths door."
    Karen just ignored their conversation knowing they’d talk about things their own way.
    Master Smith and Mrs. Baker, along with Mr. Phillips, made up the council, and Master Smith doubled as law keeper, most likely because of his size and strength. The three of them along with Greg and his father George Tanner and Jason with his father Bob Carlson came marching down the main road headed for the town square. Aunt Karen just nodded to James as they passed. Alec and Jake kept their eyes strait forward. It was embarrassing to everyone when someone was in trouble with the council. Karen turned the boys around to follow the group.
    "Looks like James plans on holding the trial right now,” Karen told them.
    After entering the town square they all went into the open sided building off to one side. There was only one wall set behind the small podium with the roof extending out in front of it a good thirty feet and supported by posts. Someone had already set a dozen chairs under the roof. Two chairs were off to the side of the podium and four chairs were facing them. A single chair was set off to the other side.
      
Everyone took their spots. Mr. Phillips stood on the podium with the other councilmen beside him. Greg and Jason were sat up front with their fathers beside them. Alec was motioned to the seat off to the side and Greg’s and Jason's mothers sat in the remaining chairs behind them with Karen and Jake. Anyone else watching would have to stand.
    Alec watched people file in, most coming up and laying a hand on his shoulder in sympathy, having seen the condition he was in when he’d been found was his guess. Mrs. Taylor was right in the front row ready to take it all in and right next to her was Sarah Clark with her father Martin who ran the general store. Alec recognized most of them, especially the hands, and there was Ralph half way back and to the side. He looked like he was fit to be hitched to one of the plows in place of one of the horses. His arms were crossed and his lips made a tight strait line instead of his normal ready smile.
    Mr. Phillips cleared his throat to get everyone to quiet down. He read the testimony he'd taken earlier stating at the end that by the grace of the god of nature, Lord Marcus, Alec had been restored