Aidan and his men had locked themselves in the foundry. They were down to less than a hundred men now and were rapidly running out of supplies.
Jack had left and gone God knows where, bringing eighty of the others with him. As for Aidan, he had lost his most powerful and loyal supporters, leaving behind those who were too uncertain or too fearful to follow Jack into the unknown.
But in the end, Jack was right, as far as Aidan was concerned. He hated to admit it to himself, but they didn't have enough men to launch a full scale siege of Paradise Falls. If they even attempted it, they would end up like Lorenzo and his men.
But they also couldn't stay hiding away in the foundry. To do so would certainly be their end. They would starve, or worse fight over what little remained and kill one another before they could do so.
