She said, in a low voice, “Could it be that he is insane and Allion has sent him to us as decoy to keep us busy while they’re doing something else? Maybe Allion even wanted to get rid of him.”
“Maybe,” Jas said, but he didn’t sound convinced. He was still staring at the screen, biting the nail on his thumb.
“Something bugging you?”
“Yes, but I don’t know what yet. It’s a Jas thing.” He smiled at her. He would say this when he had a thought he couldn’t place. Construct minds tended to be pragmatic and ordered. Anything too emotional confused them, and Jas had spent a good deal of time being confused recently, and yes, that worried her as well, that the ordeal had left him damaged, and that one day, he would come out with something unexpected.
He started, “Well . . .” And he stopped agai
