Aery shook her head, trying to chew on the piece of bread he'd given her. "I betrayed them, though. You should have left me. I couldn't bear a little pain, and I told my captors everything about us. They know... They know who we are and what we do, and they have names to put with our faces now. I compromised the whole operation for all of us." She gave up on chewing the bread and started to cry. But hearing him mention the guards, she forced the emotions away and pushed herself to her feet, stumbling a little because of her weakness. "As soon as we get outside and a ways from here, I can find some of my urchin friends, and they can help us figure out where we can go from here. Not out across the desert, of course. But maybe we could get on a boat to Adarlan, or even maybe all the way to the Western Wastes."