"You don't need a rocking chair," he countered. Alfred felt confident saying this after Evander had offered no better argument than might be, soon. It was clear that he only wanted to keep it away from Alfred; he was being vague to buy himself some time to think up a plausible reason to deny it. He wished that Caroline and Zelda would finish up and come back in, because he was sure that if he turned the question around to Caroline and asked if they had any intention of using a rocking chair she would blink in surprise before answering of course not, and then Evander would have lost his leg to stand on.
"You don't get to set up some sort of embargo on mum's things just because you're older," he argued (though presumably this was exactly what gave Evander the right; even if their mother had been intending to split things more equitably across her children in her will, she certainly hadn't included him in it since he'd been declared dead at the time). "And I don't want you to sort through things and decide what you think I can be trusted with."
"You don't get to set up some sort of embargo on mum's things just because you're older," he argued (though presumably this was exactly what gave Evander the right; even if their mother had been intending to split things more equitably across her children in her will, she certainly hadn't included him in it since he'd been declared dead at the time). "And I don't want you to sort through things and decide what you think I can be trusted with."
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER