Hm? Do you think I've been living a lie just as you have?

[The thought makes him snicker, but it's not like Temenos is that far off base.]

To live life as I had, it became necessary to sequester myself away from the outside world. Had I not, the lesser of my crimes would surely have come to light.

[But the big ones? Those would never be blamed on anything but natural disasters, of that Lobelia is certain.]