What would the timing of this memory be? A curious thought experiment. Not long after she'd cast him aside - even in a haunted dream, he can tell that she's not much older here than she was when they were together. A strange turn of events, though - that she would look for another impoverished, kowtowing fool to practice on after turning away from him. Another one of that wretched man's cronies.

Which one would it have been? He must wonder, of course, what this fellow had - that she sobs for him. What were the qualities that she loved? What set him apart from Byerly? Why did she mourn this man, when she turned merrily away from him?

As if you don't know, Rutyer. You earned the wages of cruelty.

"So goes the Game, I suppose," he says. His voice is clipped and distant. "Who was he?"