“Just play along. What do you think he would have done?”
Topher shifted his weight and sat up straighter.
“Well, I’d be dead, that’s for sure. Zorn, too.” He thought for a little while. “I suppose he would have tried to hunt Saanvi and the rest down. Probably would have killed the children. They’re useless. If he did keep them alive, he would have used them.”
“And me?”
He paused uncomfortably.
“How many men do you think he had? A hundred and fifty? Two?”
“At least.”
“And you’re a woman.”
She took a sip of her water, replaced the cap.
“What if I told you that there was someone out there worse than Rasheed?”
“He’s about as bad as it gets.”
“No,” she said. “He’s not. The group I was with. We were worse than him.”
“Okay.”
“You know what we would have done if we would have found y
