Operation Honey Trap!

The team had moved all of their gear onto the old boat, which was thankfully still moored in the cove where the guards had hidden it from the girls.

Rutherford had set sail this morning so he could get distract attention from their boat, which they planned to land back at the Island in the middle of the night. They would see him soon enough, in Squeaking Point.

"I'm so excited to have found these dolphins again," Delphi said to Alton, "and it looks like they're going to follow us without needing to ingest my blood".

"They were built to defend cargo, so they've probably retained the instinct to protect boats from tubiàn," Alton said in the same professional manner he'd been using for the last few days.

He was a master at keeping his interactions with her so polite that she swore only she had noticed the change in him.

Initially she had been angry, but now, as more time was passing, she realised she was just sad.