CHAPTER 23
Everything was ready. They’d finalized all the plans and settled or shelved all objections, and all Najud was waiting for was the entrance of their jailer with the evening meal.
They still didn’t know where they were, but Gen Jongto was firm in his assertion that he could find shelter anywhere in Yenit Ping, and they had little choice but to trust him, and hope that they hadn’t been carried somewhere else. The fact that three of them were obvious foreigners was a problem, but one they could do nothing about.
Najud had his own difficulties. He believed that the shield around them was tied to the place rather than to them as individuals, and if they just moved beyond its range they would have a lead before the captors could react. But he couldn’t prove his assumption right, not
