‘If you are wrong about this, I will have no choice. I will turn you to stone before you could even raise a hand against me.’ ‘But if I am right, I will be saving both you and my mother.’ ‘I am beyond saving,’ she replied. ‘You are not. You could turn around now and leave with your life.’ He gave the comment only the briefest consideration. ‘Either I leave this island with your head or not at all,’ he said. ‘Please, this will work. Let me do this for you.’