"That should cover everything," Tommy said, leaning back slightly and sighing.
We had spent the last stretch of time going over the plan in as much detail as either of us could manage given what we knew, which was not nearly as much as I would have liked. The broad strokes were clear enough. The execution was another matter entirely, and the execution was going to fall almost completely on Tommy's shoulders.
That was the part that kept sitting wrong with me.
His job was the harder one by a considerable margin. Getting a boat ready was one thing. Getting Emily, Mei, and Keith into it without anyone noticing was something else, and the gap between those two things was wide enough to swallow the whole plan whole.
"You're sure you can pull this off?" I asked.
"I know how it sounds," Tommy said, reading the look on my face before I could do anything about it. "But I can do it. I'm not going to take unnecessary risks, if that's what's eating at you."
