“I’ll be there.”
Dylan gave him a thumbs-up and exited, leaving them in quietness. After what occurred at Fort Humboldt, his mother had apologized. She’d didn’t expect him to forgive her but at least it was a start towards healing.
“Why do you think the Stricklands didn’t show even though they said they would?”
“Besides the obvious? They hate us. Our family killed three of Hank’s boys. You don’t get over that kind of grief. Forgiveness is a hard thing for anyone to offer. It’s easier to hate. And, well, it took years to form the wedge between our families and I imagine it will take far longer to heal it. If it can be healed at all.”
“Do you believe it can?”
“I’m not sure. Violence begets violence. As Martin Luther King once said, you can murder the hater but you don’t murder the hate.”
“So do you think the feud between the two families can ever be healed?”
“If the Wiyot Tribe believe the divide between them and those that forced them out of their land can be healed, I have to believe the same. Someone has to bring about change.”
She nodded. “And that’s you?”
“Maybe.”
“And the Wiyot Tribe. Do you think they will be able to live with what they did to the militia?”
“It wasn’t their tribe who did it, it was another. Everyone is different. Everyone holds different beliefs. What one is willing to do, another isn’t. What one is willing to forgive, another isn’t. But that doesn’t mean they won’t in time.”
A flock of birds broke away outside, pulling his attention toward the door.
“C’mon, let’s go.”
They stepped out into the brightness of day.
A blue sky stretched over Humboldt and the giant redwoods as he walked away from the home, contemplating a murky past and looking forward to an uncertain future. The challenges of a powerless world remained, and with it the threat of violence. There was no escaping that, but maybe now after all that had happened, the people of Humboldt had learned that a community divided would never stand.
He only hoped that one day, the Stricklands and Rikers would bury the hatchet. Until then, it was business as usual, fighting to defend the homestead.
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