Mom's face told me everything I needed to know. Sure, she'd been all official and supportive when the Enforcers were around, when the Council demanded an emergency meeting and we were presented as heroes, my friends and me. But now, hours later, in the wee dawn of an approaching new day with no one around to see it, she didn't look happy.

Nope. Not happy at all.

"What were you thinking?" She faced down Uncle Frank first, shaking she was so furious.

"We did what ...