CHAPTER NINE
“It has to be a trap.” Marcus was calmly logical, as usual. “Don’t go.”
Phoenix scratched his scalp. “I know but what else can I do?”
He paced the small room restlessly. Zhi Hui perched on a small stool in one corner, watching. Marcus leaned against the doorframe, fingering the pointed tip of one of his arrows. Brynn busily hauled things out of the Hyllion Bagia and worked out what might be useful in rescuing Jade. There were two piles of trinkets, clothing, coins and weapons growing in front of him. He looked critically at a small Egyptian glass phial of blue liquid for a moment then placed it on one of the piles. A crystal prism went on the other pile. Finally, he began tucking things into his copious pockets. The rest he stowed in the cupboard with his sleepin
