Further discussion seemed useless, and the meeting was just about to break up when the fool walked up and demanded to be heard. "Listen to me,” he said. "The fairies say my mother should die. It is a fair punishment for her crime. But the fairies walked across my land as they came to the village. I demand that they rub out their footprints before they are allowed to take mother away.” It seemed a foolish, meaningless demand, and everyone said, "How simple!” The fairies agreed.
Which statement from the passage is a fact?
“Further discussion seemed useless.”
“The fool walked up and demanded to be heard.”
“It is a fair punishment for her crime.”
“It seemed a foolish, meaningless demand.”
