Shannon merely relaxed further now that nothing else new was forthcoming. They were just talking, figuring things out, being in their own ways before anything else had to happen. If anything else had to happen. Shannon could probably stay like this for a while, too, drifting further the longer they stayed like that. He filed away the idea of chains somewhere in a pocket of his mind that he could find it again later when he could actually use it.

"What would you have used it for?" That part still didn't quite make sense. Eli said he hadn't intended to lead Shannon around on it, but then what was its purpose? He nodded lightly to the head at the crown of his hair. "Yeah. Isn't that why we just bought a whip?"