Then . . . distastefully, they removed the silence helmet from Zillabar’s head and helped her down from the sled. Zillabar, still in shackles and restraints, hissed at their touch and pulled away so violently that she slipped and tumbled, falling painfully onto the rocks and rolling dangerously close to the edge of the precipice. “Whoops!” said Lee. “She almost saved us the trouble.” He looked to Sawyer. “Listen, if we decide that she has to die—I want to do it.” Sawyer shook his head. “After what she did to Finn, I have first dibs.” Three-Dollar stepped between the two men. “No. If she has killed the TimeBinder, I will take her life. . . .” Both Sawyer and Lee turned to stare at him. Sawyer spoke for them both. “I thought TimeBinders didn’t believe in killing?” Lee asked the question even more directly. “What about the Alliance of Life?” Three-Dollar shook his head. “You didn’t let me finish. And after I take her life, I will take my own because I’ll have betrayed my own principles.”
