"Will we stay here?" Krista asked.

"Only for a couple of days," Sheikh Hakeem replied. "Then we'll start moving down the coast, stopping here and there for some days at a time, always in places where we will be able to observe anyone approaching from quite a distance. It will be safer than presenting anyone who might be seeking you with a fixed target. Do you know who it is that threatens you?"

"Yes," Susan replied, "though he isn't personally doing anything but paying others to do his dirty work."

"So you don't know who it might be?" Sheikh Hakeem asked.

"There was a guy who caught up to us...