He nodded. "Aye. So it is. It's why letting them think we'll go to Station is for the best. They've got less than no reason to be loyal to the High King and Queen, so that means they've got no reason to be loyal to us either."

There at last was something they could agree on. The two of them, lost in these lands, could trust no one. So long as they were both smart enough to keep that in mind, they might well still survive.