"The planet." And the Mothercrystal, but saying that would just make things worse, wouldn't it?

The circumstances were still terribly suspicious, but Dread felt fairly confident that whatever this man was, he wasn't an Ascian. Perhaps treated the same as one, but not one.

"She is," Dread said almost immediately. No question of it. "If you have to get on the wrong side of one of us, take me every time."