"He's keeping something from us, Andrea. He wouldn't tell me." Lisa said.
"That's because it is none of our business." Andrea replied.
"Andrea, we looked after that rock for three years and we got nothing in return. He didn't have anything to do with us in those years either. Something's going on. He wanted that rock kept safe with us until the Dark Lord had been destroyed. Why? Why was he so worried that the Dark Lord would want it? That just makes me think that it was his and Duke stole it. He's trying to do something with it that the Dark Lord would have done as well, and that's why he can't tell us. I know it is." Lisa explained.
"That may be so, Lisa, but it's still none of our business." Andrea said.
"What if he does something terrible and we have to live our lives knowing that we gave it back to him. It would be partly our fault." Lisa said.
"That's very possible, but it's none of our business. Duke is a good man, but I had the same suspicions. I don't think he'll try anything crazy, but perhaps the rock won't have all the same power with pieces of it missing." Andrea said.
"What are you saying?"
"While I was upstairs I broke off two pieces of the rock, one for you, one for me."
Andrea pulled out two small red chunks of rock and handed one to Lisa.
"We're just as powerful as him. Whatever he plans to do, we can do the same." Andrea finished.