"Wait a moment," Amber said. "Wouldn't whoever it was that hired this caravan to ambush us with the soulbreaker orb know that they would be incapable of activating it? Either our enemies are more ignorant than we thought, or perhaps this web is more tangled than I had anticipated." She looks to the rest of you on the Coatal. "Thoughts? This seems to reduce the chance of it being one of our known adversaries. Certainly they must have expected us to potentially come out of this alive, or worse (and apparently) with the Orb ourselves."