The question hung among them. Who would be the bait.
Kei broke it.
" The one who acts as live bait is not the one who matters , " he said. " What matters are the ones following the bait once it is taken. The Viletails are fast. Whoever follows has to keep their pace and stay unseen at the same time. That is the hard part. Not the being taken. The keeping up after. "
It moved the weight of the question off the bait and onto the follower, and they felt it move.
Tula broke her own silence.
" And if one body is not enough? " she said. " If the Viletails come, and the dead body does not satisfy them, and they decide not to carry the live one off but to kill it where it stands? "
" Exactly my thought. " Corvyn, quick to it.
