Chapter 206: Giving Him A Chance
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"I caused that," I said. "What you heard. That was because of what I did." I kept my voice level—not performing ease, just steady. "I did something that hurt him and you heard what it cost him and you decided I was dangerous. That was the right call with the information you had."
Lake looked at me. He was doing the assessment. "He cried for a long time," he said.
"I know."
"He didn't know I was awake."
"I know that too."
"He never cries," Lake said. "Not where I can see. He's been sad before but he just gets up and makes tea." He said it with the matter-of-fact tone of someone reporting observations—what he'd catalogued, what he knew. "So when I heard him I knew it was very bad. Because of the tea thing."
The tea thing. Lucian's version of t
