'So he was never truly keen on them, more in himself through their eyes?'
'I don't have the foggiest idea. Perhaps. He recently realized that seeming entranced was a way in. In any case, it wasn't genuine. It was tied in with getting laid. That is to say, when you're fifteen, that is all good, it's all you ponder.' He gives a short snicker. 'However, you should outgrow it, and I don't know he did. Possibly he required the attestation. Got snared on it, I don't have a clue. He'd positively discovered a method of getting individuals to get things done for him – due to him here and there.'
'As a result of him?'
'Things they probably won't have needed to do or wouldn't have done under ordinary conditions. Indeed, even awful things.'
'Do you mean Brock?'
He pulls on his cigarette, breathes
