Michael rapts his big rings on the table, getting the attention of all his kids.
He didn't want to do this, to have them here already ready to tear each other up. But that would be a lie, wouldn't it?
Not everyone fights with each other, only Kiri and Travis. His two beloved sons, forever rivals, never see eye to eye and are always reminding each other of where they stand when they are in the same room.
He wishes for one day when they will all be peaceful, but that's wishful thinking, and he isn't the kind of man who sits on his hands and wishes.
His role as the father of all his beautiful, precious children is to make them be peaceful enough ot be considered a tight-knit family as everyone knows of them, and make their family stronger.
It's also to convene them all if one of them comes and asks for the meeting.
It's not every day they have these meetings; the last time they were all together was three years ago.
It was a dark night.
