"You could have come to us before now," I said when the silence following the storm's pending arrival took over. "Shared what you knew, worked with us, not against us. We could have figured this out together." I didn't bother looking for support from the others. We'd all been talking amongst ourselves, after all. I was well aware the question I posed wouldn't have been top of the list for anyone, not even me, until this point in time when it seemed to matter more than ...