"The same reason I never tell anyone unless absolutely necessary," he says bluntly. "The organization that did this to me is still out there. They believe that the poison killed me. If they ever found out that I survived..." He grimaces. "They have a policy of killing anyone with knowledge of them. And I don't know who all of the members are."

People could say that it was safe here. That he wasn't even in the same world anymore. But since arriving here, three other people from his world had shown up here. He'd been lucky that they were allies.

But the possibility existed that Gin or Vodka would be the next to arrive."