Chapter Twelve
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Porcelain“It is beyond my isolated comprehension how one man can know so much,” Aurora continued. “Yet, make no mistake, Jean, he does. He is erratic in the way he releases said information, sporadic even, to the point of wanting to shake it from him, but he possesses it. Walter can be most frustrating,” she added, doing her best squint-eyed impression of a look I knew only too well. “I do not understand why he should be so. Perhaps, in his own way, Walter is as troubled as you. But he was most insistent that I did not aid you when we crashed in Hispania. He said, at worst they would hurt you, and you enjoyed pain, or something very similar, so it didn't matter. The crash threw Sunyin too far from us to save him without giving Walter and myself away. Raphael's people w
