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journey.”
    Sajja nodded. “This I will grant you, though I would have her brother there to protect her.” He nodded to Reza. “And your sister. If she means to stay with the tribe.”
    “I believe she does,” Reza muttered, looking down. As she had not returned from the other room with Chaiya, he suspected Kamala had no intention of forsaking her people as Reza had. But they were different. He’d made his choices and she would make hers, and he would do his best not to resent her for that. He had, after all, been taken away from her and left her alone for a long time.
    Sajja smiled a little. “Everything changes. I have learned that at last. If you bring this den of bears to our island, we will share it under the terms that we have discussed. You will have your sanctuary.”
    “Thank you, great Sajja,” Cressida said, and smiled back at him.
    They stayed another hour, drinking hot tea with the chieftain, and Reza did his best to listen and not feel completely baffled by all of it. He knew, even if Sajja wasn’t saying so to Cressida, that the tigers would not welcome the bears. But if Sajja thought there could be peace, he had no intention of starting a fight before that peace had even been truly settled upon. Reza suspected that Sajja simply wasn’t willing to flat-out deny the Keeper of the Jewel, because the rest of the tribe would find that equally distasteful. It would be a long, hard road, though, to true coexistence. But at least Sajja seemed willing to let the bears onto the island, where they would find enough rope to hang themselves with, or not. When they left the village, a sense of satisfaction settled over them all. Except now it was time to speak to Kelly’s bears, and prepare for the long journey ahead.

Chapter 9
    Kelly was up for most of the night, on the top deck with the den, bringing them around to the idea. At first, nearly all of them refused even the notion of bringing their families back to this island. All of them except Fat Tom, who had a clear and compassionate head on his shoulders, if a very large one, and who listened to Kelly closely when he explained it the first time. With his voice, and eventually with Cort’s, Kelly was able to convince the rest of them that the island was the best possible place. Free of people who would make them hide their true natures. Rife with natural resources and an abundance of green like the forests of their homeland. Lacking much of the comforts of the modern world, yes, but none of its hate and fear and distrust of things magical or mystical, as they innately were.
    Moreover, it was safe. It was remote. No one would bother them here; no one would come to take the island away. If they could share it peaceably with the tigers, no man would dare try to claim it. A few ships to guard the waters, and they would have a veritable fortress of a home in which their people could thrive and live for generations. It could be a protected paradise, and in the end none of his beleaguered, weary crew could deny that. All they wanted was home and family. And Kelly could finally, finally give it to them. But it took a long time for them to understand it, to accept that it should come in a shape none of them could have predicted. When it was over, the lads were excited enough to take to their cups and what ale they still had on board in celebration, but Kelly was exhausted. He took himself below deck, intent on the barracks and a swinging bunk to sleep in.
    Cressida was waiting for him, however, in the narrow corridor below. He smiled through his exhaustion when he saw her, a welcome vision where she slouched against the wall just outside the door to the barracks. When she saw him, she offered him a sly smile.
    “I thought you’d be with Reza,” he admitted as he stopped in front of her.
    “Why?” she asked.
    And Kelly felt a bit stupid, mostly because of the way she was smiling at him. “Because…you were.”
    “Yes, I was,” she laughed quietly. “But he