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I could lie, butI sigh We all have to accept our faults eventually And mine is that I’h your sword Not intentionally Not at first’

‘Things?’ He crosses his ars?’

I chew my lip as I think about what to say

He then looks at his old sword lying on the counter The shine on Pooky’s blade seelare

‘My sword showed you her memories of me?’

My shoulders relax a little ‘So you know that she can do that?’

‘I know that she used to be loyal toto Pooky Bear, notto teach me how to use a sword I mean, I had never held one before’

Raffe continues to talk to his sword ‘It’s one thing to be forced to give up on a bearer because you think he may have fallen It’s another to expose his privatea seuo?’

‘What did she show you?’ He holds up his hand ‘Wait Don’t tellin els wear underwear?’ Oh,myself in deeper and deeper today

‘No’ He shakes his head ‘Figure of speech’

‘Oh’ I nod, trying to get the i, possibly buck naked ‘Well, speaking of weird things, the hellions cah the sword’

‘What?’

I clear my throat ‘That hellion you saw on the lawn and two others crawled out of Beliel through the sword’ I still have hope that I won’t have to confess it all, but he ets it all out of me

He frowns and paces around the kitchen as I tell him what happened

When I finish, he says, ‘You can never trust Beliel’

‘That’s what he says about you’

He ru he dropped earlier ‘Maybe he’s right You shouldn’t trust anyone’