"Good thinking, Marco." Human resistance. He didn't think he'd said anything to contradict that, and he couldn't afford to second-guess himself now. "If no one else has said anything different, then let's go with that."

As long as Iniss didn't know their most important secret, Jake could still tell himself that it wasn't that bad, they didn't need to do anything... drastic.

But Ax was right as well. There was no telling what they were up to now, Iniss and Dani, with Tom caught in between them. "I'm... not sure what our options are," he admitted. "Is there anyone we can get on our side, who'd believe us if we told them what Iniss - Tom - is? We'd find them faster with more eyes, and we need to find them before we can - " What, Jake? Kill them? " - do anything about them. Do we know anything about Dani's motivations?"