She turned around.
The boy regarded her with gray eyes that held surprising serenity for one so young. “A telepath would be useful to you,” he replied. “I can sense the presence of other minds even before your Nassai can detect them. I can warn you if I pick up the tiniest whiff of hostile intentions. And I'm not exactly useless in a fight.”
“He did manage to incapacitate several guards on the Ganymede station,” Anna put in. “The way Ben tells it, he never would have gotten out of there alive if not for Raynar and Keli.”
Objections rose to mind, and Jena found herself standing there with an open mouth, ready to give voice to all of them. They all died before she formed even one syllable. She had to admit that telepaths made her uneasy – on the Fringe, they had been the one thing the Ant
