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Tori spread his hands in an obviously! sort of fashion “The man finally buys a clue”

“That is not what happened” Baldewin’s voice dipped even lower until it was little i saw it as a betrayal But did you hear what the true betrayal was?”

“Does it hed with pleasure Thethrough his system

“It was a love affair gone wrong”

Tori choked Spluttering, he put the cup hastily down and then beat a pals Baldewin reached forward, as if to help with this process, but Tori waved hi him

When he had his breath back, he choked out, “W-what? A love affair?”

“Kaiser Jaeggi was involved with a wind dragon, Gagan Varon eventually found his true s off Kaiser went mad with jealousy What he could not have, no one could He set out to destroy the dragons, and his rage grew to the point that he wanted to destroy everything”

Tori shook his head in denial That couldn’t be true Everything—his entire clan and their isolation—couldn’t possibly be built on a lie fed to them by allies That…no, it couldn’t be true

“Why would I lie to you about this, Tori? Why would I risk it when you can so easily check it?” Baldewin shifted in his seat and pulled his mobile phone from his pocket He tapped in a security code and held it out to Tori It wasthan all the coffee in that café More te than piles of money

Baldeas offering the truth

Growing up, isolated from the rest of the world, he knew the leaders of his clan were censoring the information they received History books in schools ritten by members of their clan

And when the internet finally arrived in their tiny slice of the world, he are that the vast majority of websites were blocked