She knew they couldn't stay and search for Betty, but that didn't make it any easier to know they were leaving her for good. It broke her heart.

Jennsen looked back over her shoulder in the darkness. "Did they hurt you? I was so worried that they would hurt you."

"That Mord-Sith would have. You came just in time."

"What did it feel like when she touched you with the Agiel?"

Sebastian thought a moment. "Like being hit by lightning, I suppose."

Jennsen laid her head back down on the pack. She wondered why she had felt nothing from the power of Mord-Sith's weapon. He had to be wondering that same thing, but if he was, he didn't ask. She would have had no answer for him, anyway. Nyda had been astonished, too, and said that her Agiel worked on everyone. Nyda was wrong. For some reason, Jennsen found that strangely worrisome.