“I believe you said that we would agree together what is said to Waterstone?” Autumn Leaves raised his eyebrows. “I presume that still stands?”
“Of course it does. I need you to help me repair this mess, Autumn Leaves. I didn’t mean to hurt him. I just took a lot of convincing. But in my need to have someone to trust, I forgot to look after him.” He thought carefully how to phrase what he wanted to say. Although he hadn’t told Autumn Leaves, he felt sure that the very last part of the memories he had seen were the main cause of Waterstone’s distress. “Will you tell him that he has earned my trust beyond any doubt and that there is no aspect I saw that I disliked? He is welcome to the poor opinions he has had of me and they come as no surprise. – And tell him that, in my mind, he is one of
