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“Yet you seem in an awfully good mood.”
“I’m just thinking about the reward Zheng is going to cough up, once we hand him Eternity’s ass. That is the plan, yes?” he tilted his head.
“That’s the plan,” I agreed.
“And if you two are who I think you are, you have no need for money, yes?”
“You can keep the reward, if there is one,” I said. “But there’s reason to think that my sister may be in there. We get her out alive. That’s job one.”
“And what does she look like?”
“Me. We’re twins.”
He nodded, as if making a mental note. He didn’t have any hair on his face, even eyebrows, but a patch of skin in the appropriate spot went up. “And since we’re helping you, I assume there’s no question of mentioning our little ruse to the senator?”
“As long as you do help.”
He smiled broadly, showing a lot of misshapen and yellowed teeth. “I believe you have a team, Miss—”
“Dory. Just Dory.”
“She does not have a team!” That, of course, was Tomas, striding back over from where he and Sarah had been talking. I was starting to find him less pretty.
Ranbir turned to look at him. “I thought you’d left.”
“You aren’t coming?” Tomas demanded.
“No, I believe I mentioned that.”
“I, too, am staying,” Ev said staunchly.
Tomas looked at him like he was crazy. “She kidnapped you, put you in chains, and dragged you into the dead zones! Why on earth would you help her?”
Ev looked at him placidly. “She gave me beer.”
Tomas threw up his hands.
“And Ranbir is right. This will make us lots of money.”
“If you survive!”
“I will survive. And I like money.”
“It’s closer than the way out,” Sarah said, biting her lip. “And we have better odds with a group—”
“Until you arrive at your destination,” Tomas snapped. “And the unknown number of triad members who await you! Has everyone suddenly gone mad?”
“Perhaps they are simply not cowards,” Louis-Cesare commented.
“Are they always like this?” Sarah asked, as Tomas launched himself at my husband, and the two rolled into the street, kicking and fighting.
I sighed.
It was starting to look like it.
“You’ve got a hell of a storehouse down there,” Jason said, emerging from the portal.
I hadn’t seen him go back inside, but he must have, and not just to look. The kid believed in being loaded for bear, and was practically bristling with weapons, most of them mine. If we had to haul ass, he was going to have a problem in al
