The mage puzzled him. She’d stuck up for Andy when he’d first hailed Tom, but hadn’t said a word since. It wasn’t because she wasn’t interested. He’d caught her watching them occasionally during the trip, while she was supposed to be asleep. Mages had their own agenda, everybody said so. Andy wondered what hers was. She frightened him a little, but he supposed that was mostly because he’d never met a mage before.