Rhys nodded. He understood. He washed with soap a second time before starting the proper part of the conversation.

"Last I saw you, we were in the sewers.... You vanished...."

And Rhys thought the Lord Seeker had been right. About himself, about Cole, about everything. And he had wanted to die, his despair had been so great over how solidly he had been fooled.

"...Where did you go?"