After Mantilos hard words everyone shared a swift look. But it was Ezekiel that spoke next.

"Fine" Ezekiel groaned running a hand down his face in aggravation and surrender. "Until he wakes up, I'll just keep an eye on him."

"No!" Mantilo shouted then leveled glowing slit eyes at each of his sons. Using the Shifter in him to quell their rebellious natures. "No one is going near that stranger again after tonight except me or you mother."

This time Ezekiel wisely held his tongue and none of his brother made a move to object either.

Mantilo blinked swiftly, and between on blink and the next his glowing eyes faded back to normal. "For now let's leave the stranger in your mothers care." Mantilo shook his head as he looked back over at the stranger lying in the bed before he turned to his wife. "So what do you need to properly care of the mortals wounds Glen?"

Glen who had returned to the mortal's side and was sitting on the floor next to the bed, now turned away from a tray full of bloody towels, and shredded cloth that Ezekiel could see was a pair of ratty decimated shoes.

The blood soaked strings and white cloth sat beside her with a carving blade and he realized that his mother must have had to cut them off of the intruder's feet.

Glen paused. Then she looked back at his father and said. "Well if he's going to live....I need to do surgery. So I'll need a new pack of needles and thread. Preferably surgical grade and sterile. Glen looked out of the one window in the room as she continued.

Ezekiel glanced that way as she talked and was surprised to see the sky lightening in soft oranges and blues as the sun began to rise somewhere on the opposite side of the sky.

"The best place to find those things will be over in the southern part of the village with Kim. I've packed the wound with gauze, and sewed up the sides of his gut to hold in and slow the blood, but he's just going to keep bleeding until I can closes some of those larger veins and arteries that got slashed, by whatever it was....." Glen turned her lips to the side as she looked at Mantilo.

"How soon do you need it?" Mantilo asked her dryly.

Glen pursed here small mouth, then smacked her lips and rolled her large green eyes at him. "Oh I don't know....How's about before the mortal bleeds to death on the bed." She bit off seeming botherd with his father's tone of voice. "So preferably getting it in the next few hours if you don't feel to put out and want to waste more time shouting!"

"Hold it Glen." Mantilo began glaring at her. "Don't take that tone with me. Let's not forget who was helping our son hide all of this from me just a few short minutes ago!" Mantilo snapped at her, eyes beginning to glow again.

Glen took one look at him and just laughed.

Ezekiels breath caught in his throat when she then went right up to her husband; a man who outweighed here by a good 170 pounds and poked....poked him in the chest.

"Lay off!" She hissed at him. "I will not sit here and let you condemn me for helping someone. Nor will I be talked to like I'm just another one of your Clans Men. I'm your wife!" She said then pointed at the larger room. "These are our sons. And this mortal is currently dying in front of us." Glen dropped her hand. "So the longer that I sit here babysitting you five pussy cats is another moment that he won't make it! "

As Glen spoke here large green eyes began shrinking and lengthening, a dark green florescence touched her iris almost making it glow, but not fully. His mother never got to that point unless she was about to Shift completely.

The eyes of a simmering Leopard taking over, she growled at Mantilo. Her small frame began to thrum with Shift energy that popped warmly on the air, but didn't expand.

"The man that I love very much is a caring, compassionate father! Not some big unruly ape who throws his fangs around the one time something doesn't go his way!" She continued then narrowed her eyes at Ezekiel, who like his brothers was standing back in utter silence and shock.

She hissed and stomped past his father, before Mantilo had a chance to regroup and when she made it to Glen downright roared in Ezekiel's face.

The Leopard in him quelled at her expression of parental fury. Ezekiel averted his gaze and looked down. Ezekiel didn't mind looking away too much, because In the Shifter world, much like the animal kingdom, to look down or away from another Shifter was a sign of respect and of submission.

"Ezekiel you will never let anything like this happen again!! Do you understand me!" His mother began. "How dare you! This will be the final time that you purposely circumvent your father or ignore the rules. He is not only your Father, but he is a Clan Head to us all. Our leader!! And you've got to learn to mind your place beneath him! You aren't as immature as you act. You have wisdom and strength. Start using it!!!" Glen sighed. "I would never ask you to ignore your heart or turn your back on someone in need, but you know damn well that the choice should have been your fathers to make. You should have went straight to him, instead of doing as you pleased. Your disrespect was a blow to him."

Felling like he had to once again state the obvious Ezekiel went to open his mouth.

"And if you even try to utter that lie again Ill slap you." Glen told him swiftly seemingly reading his mind. Lander snickered. Glen's eyes shifted off of him to glare at his sibling to the far left of him. Landers shoulders were shaking with mirth as he snickered behind his hand.

"Stop that Lander." She hissed at here blond haired son. "Laughing at him is not making this any easier."

Glen looked back at Ezekiel. "You father is a good man, as you well know! So I don't want to hear it! You were wrong, even if what you wanted to do was right! So deal with it, and do as he tells you." Glen took a deep breath, turned and sighed.

"Now would you ALL kindly get out of this room? I've got some sterilizing to do." She said waving a hand at them over her shoulder. "Now shoo. And pray that you have an uneventful day, because last night just about killed ME!"

Quietly Ezekiel agreed with her. And he had a feeling that all of his brothers and father probably did too.