Saig turned to her father. “Will they?”
Jermi thought for a moment. “It’s hard to say. I’ve already done a poor job of predicting what they’ll do. And we have no notion why Nahak wanted someone with our skills in charge of Running Water—specifically in charge. How important is that, to him? But he knows he can’t control you now, not once you leave his influence. Unless there’s something else I don’t know about, you’re not particularly useful to him.”
“Would staying in Running Water make him less likely to come after me, if he decided to do it?”
That put a frown on her father’s face. “No. Running Water isn’t the protection that it used to be, with so many of us gone. And nothing stops him when he wants something. It might be harder, but he can go through me and the remaining warriors of
