"Leave you?" Daine repeats, so baffled by the suggestion that she thinks she must be misunderstanding him. Surely he can't think she's going to just abandon him in here, to be enslaved by the Master all over again.

Then she glances down at his hand, which has gone white-knuckled around hers, and wonders what else he could mean by the question.

"No," she says, frowning a little as she tries to decide if she ought to feel insulted by the implication that she would do such a thing. "Why would I?"