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just said that to frighten Jack.”
                “Maybe.” Grayson doesn’t look convinced. “I can’t believe this guy’s running for president and he’s still willing to do this.”
                “Whatever he’s doing, it must be a big deal,” I say.
                Grayson nods. “Jack doesn’t think he’s telling the truth, does he?”
                I shake my head. “You heard him?”
                “I heard him.”
                “What I don’t get,” I say, “is how Hammond knows so much about us. He knows about the Faders and the Others. Do you think what he said about there being secret committees that know about them is true?”
                “Probably,” Grayson says, like it makes sense. I guess it does, kind of. I can’t believe that two organizations as big as the Others and the Underground could exist without someone knowing about them, and the government would want to keep a watch on any group that large and powerful, even if it never did anything about it.
                “Of course,” Grayson says, “it could be something else.”
                “Like what?”
                “He could be connected to the Underground or the Others directly.”
                I hadn’t thought of it that way, but it makes a kind of sense. Hammond could be lying. It could all be a set-up of some kind. But if so, what is he trying to achieve. All he’s done so far is get Jack to go fetch his father. But isn’t that enough?
                “It could be the Others,” I say.
                Grayson looks at me questioningly. “Why them? Why not the Underground?”
                I try to explain, but I’m not sure it makes that much sense. “Because he only let Jack out. Why not send both of you? Your dad might not be Sebastian Cook, but he might still be able to help with fading someone. If he let you both go and kept me, wouldn’t that improve his odds of one of you coming back with the kind of help he says he wants?”
                “Maybe he thinks he needs more hostages,” Grayson suggests.
                “Or maybe it’s Sebastian that he wants,” I say.
                Grayson finally seems to get it, a look of surprise crossing his square jawed features. “You mean that this could all be about trying to capture Jack’s father again?”
                “Why not?” I say. “If the Others sent some kind of team to the farm to snatch him, but they couldn’t find him, maybe taking us was the next best thing.”
                “Or maybe it isn’t the Others at all,” Grayson points out.
                I shut my eyes for a moment. “Maybe not. I guess I just want this to be simple. It’s easier if I can blame it on the Others, I guess.”
                Grayson smiles at me like he understands. “I know. If it’s all the Others, rather than some guy just deciding to do this, then it’s easy. We beat them and it’s over. If it isn’t just them, then where does it end?”
                That’s it exactly. If I can blame this, and everything else, on just one twisted organization, then life gets easier. It means that things can be solved easily. It means that I don’t have to accept that normal people can do bad things. Like Grayson said, Hammond is meant to be running for president. If a man doing that can do something like this, then what about everyone else? No, I can’t think like that, or I’ll go crazy.
                “You know what I think?” Grayson says, standing up.
                I shake my head. “What?”
                “I think we need to start work on getting out of here again. That way, no matter what’s going on, we aren’t in the middle of it. We can warn Jack and his father.”
                He’s right.