Geo told him.
When he finished, Urson said, "You're crazy. Both you and her."
"I don't think so," Geo said. He concluded his story by recounting Argo's demonstration of the jewel's power.
Urson fingered the stone on Geo's chest. "All that in this little thing? Tell me, do you think you can figure out how it works?"
"I don't know if I want to," Geo said. "It doesn't sound right."
"You're damn straight it doesn't sound right," Urson reiterated. "What's the point of sending us in there with no protection to do something that would be crazy with a whole army. What's she got against us?"
"I don't think she has anything against us," Geo said. "Urson, what stories do you know about Aptor? She said you might be able to tell me something."
"I know that no one trades with it, everyone curses by it, and the rest is a lot of rubbish not worth saying."
"What rubbish?"
"Believe me, it's just bilge water," insisted Urson. "Do you think you could figure out that little stone there, if you had long enough, I mean? She said that the priests five hundred years ago could, and she seems to think you're as smart as some of them. I wouldn't doubt if you could work it."