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now,” said Steve. “It’s not your fault, Adam.”
    Daylight began to set in and the group walked back to the house to guard the TNT and come up with a plan to find Thomas.
    â€œHe’s definitely living in an underground house in one of the tunnels,” said Lucy.
    Baa. Baa. The group walked out of Adam’s house to see Steve’s missing sheep grazing on the lawn outside the house.
    â€œDo you see Thomas?” Adam asked as he looked around the property.
    â€œHe gave back the sheep!” Steve said as he held onto his diamond sword.
    â€œYou can put the sword down Steve,” Max joked.
    â€œI’m so happy to have it back, I don’t want to let go of it,” said Steve.
    Steve looked at the sheep and realized that Thomas’s days of griefing were over. He was using the sheep as a peace offering, but he wasn’t sure Thomas was worthy of being forgiven.
    The group led the sheep back to Steve’s house. Rufus barked and Snuggles meowed when they returned. Rufus walked over to the burnt wheat farm and Steve followed him.
    â€œGuys!” Steve called the gang over, “Look!”
    Somebody had tended Steve’s land and placed wheat seeds in the soil.
    â€œI bet it’s Thomas!” said Adam. “He’s trying to make up for all the grief he caused us.”
    â€œMaybe splashing him with a potion of swiftness and strength wasn’t as bad as we thought,” said Kyra.
    â€œOh no,” screamed Max, “Do you think he had something to do with that?” Max pointed to a witch hut just a few feet from the wheat farm.
    â€œA witch!” cried Lucy. She raced toward it with her sword.
    â€œNo, use your bow and arrow, Lucy.” Max called out. “She can splash you.”
    But the warning came too late and the witch swiftly splashed a potion of poison at Lucy and she was defenseless.
    The witch drank a potion of swiftness, but before the evil creature could sprint toward the group, Max shot her with the bow and arrow.
    The group turned to help Lucy who was laying on the ground and were shocked to see that Thomas had appeared and had already raced to her rescue. They watched silently as Thomas handed Lucy some milk. She drank it slowly. “Thank you, Thomas,” she said.
    As the group walked over to Lucy and Thomas, Adam kept his sword out. He didn’t trust Thomas. He felt betrayed by his friend, and despite Thomas’s small gestures of forgiveness, he wasn’t sure of Thomas’s motives.
    â€œI’m sorry,” Thomas said as he stood next to Lucy, who was slowly regaining her strength.
    But Thomas’s words came too late. Adam stood by his friend with a sword.
    â€œAdam,” Steve pleaded, “let him explain.”
    â€œIf you hurt him, we’ll never get any answers,” said Lucy.
    Adam wasn’t listening.

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    CONSEQUENCES AND ENDINGS
    A dam drew his sword closer to Thomas. “I can’t believe you caused so much trouble. Why?”
    â€œI-I’m sorry,” Thomas stuttered. “It started out as a joke.”
    â€œA joke?” Adam raised his voice.
    Steve was angry too. “You have the entire village believing that I’m a griefer and you blew up my wheat farm twice!”
    â€œAnd you flooded my house with lava!” screamed Kyra.
    â€œYou trapped me in a bedrock room!” yelled Henry.
    Thomas attempted to defend himself. “I didn’t realize how much my griefing was hurting other people and when I finally saw how bad it was, I didn’t know how to stop.”
    â€œYou didn’t realize how much you were hurting other people?” Steve didn’t believe it.
    â€œIt started as a joke; I was just hiding your potions,” said Thomas.
    Adam was disappointed with his friend. “I don’t think hiding potions is funny.”
    â€œTruthfully, when you didn’t realize I was the one stealing the potions, I wanted to see how many