. I assumed you both had been also, and honestly, the Murder life is hard, but you were safer in one. As I’d been searching, I’d learned of the slow disappearance of the old Crows. There are many friends i never saw again, gone in the night. I was alone, vulnerable. I knew no Murder in their right mind would take me in. I remembered that one Murder had offered to, years ago. I went to Cyras. Instead of offering me a new name, he offered me an escape. I took it.