"So if I get killed, I have to come back the next day and work? I'll keep that in mind," Kelly grumbled, but good-naturedly, if a little nervously. Stray himself had said that Marr would probably blow up this building if she thought it would help. Would she? Really? "What if she's got a bomb hidden in the shelter?" she blurted out.

"She doesn't," Gabby said with such certainty that Kelly had to turn and look at her.

"How do you know?"

Gabby smiled slightly and shrugged. "I asked for those tours for a reason. There's no evidence of a bomb, nowhere in the building. There wasn't yesterday and there wasn't today."

And if anyone would know, it would be someone who had lived and fought in the Middle-East, Kelly reasoned. Her shoulders slumped. Her stomach was still twisting itself into knots. "Let's get this over with, then. Shops will close in a couple of hours and she'll get suspicious if we wait too long."