"What?" I gasp, staring at him in dismay. Didn't he come here to rescue me? To take me back home, to my sector. To the slums.

"I need you to go back to Fuentes. For some reason he's become obsessed by you, obsessed by the legend. We need to take advantage of this and set you up in his care as a plant."

"You. We!" I hiss at him, poking him in the chest. "What about me? I don't particularly want to die, Xavier. And I was steps away from a death sentence in ...