The moment Dean had left earlier, Claude had been on edge, both at the horrible fighting he'd witnessed through the screen and at the tense silence between him and Opal Young as it happened.
Despite the Village Elder's concentration on the surveillance footage, whenever Claude had tried to get up—especially when those vampires first attacked and he'd seen Dean fall to the ground—Opal instantly had an iron grip on his arm. "I promised Dean I'd keep you here," The woman who was near his own mother's age had said to him without glancing away from the screens (much like she was still doing now). "I'll strap you to that chair if I have to."
Opal intimidated Claude the same way Helen Hussain had, and he's sure neither women were to be underestimated. If Opal gave a warning, everything in Claud
