No, he wouldn't have. Especially when he had learned of his value in hunting down amplifiers. If the tides had turned and even in bringing Mal back to life, even if having the third amplifier had caused her to fail, he would have kept the boy alive to gloat. He'd never kill Mal. She nodded taking a deep breath.
"It's a weeks walk back to Os Alta," she frowned. "We need to be careful and we need to stay to the backwoods as much as we can."