He’d thought that we were working out our issue, then Erik showed up. He blamed Erik for telling me about the blood transfusion, but I wanted him to know that it wasn’t Erik’s fault; Donavon had no one to blame but himself. And it wasn’t just the transfusion - he’d lied about so many things that I didn’t know how he could expect me to forgive him. I busied myself reviewing the old interview reports for Grace, Rider, Jennifer, Cal, and even Penny. Grace’s and Rider’s reports were exactly as I’d expected. They were both interrogated by a Mid-level Telepath named Sandi Yardly, and the reports included a narrative almost identical to the one that both Cryptos had given me. Sandi concluded that both were telling the truth, but noted that low levels of deception were present in each interviewee. She’d indicated that their dishonesty was a result of the relationship of a “sexual nature” between the two. She made it sound so clinical. I wondered if the official reports on my destruction of Donavon’s cabin alleged that my actions were the result of a relationship of a “sexual nature”
