trap designed to kill anyone in the room. He didn’t want us to have it.”
“Us?” Kenney says.
“The Cahokians,” I say, quickly catching my mistake. I can’t mention Ariadne or the Minoans to him.
“Ah,” he says, nodding, as if maybe I meant something else. “I see. And did he say why?”
“He said it was too dangerous for anyone to have.”
“And yet he never destroyed it himself,” Kenney says. “Don’t you find that interesting?”
I suddenly feel as if I’m being tested. I don’t like it. “It was the most important thing he ever worked on,” I answer. “He probably couldn’t bring himself to do it.”
“Possibly,” Kenney agrees, although he sounds doubtful. “Or perhaps he was keeping it safe for someone else, and feared that if we took possession of it, the other party would never get it back.”
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