"I think someone knows," he says quietly. He forces himself to look at Dorian as he moves to get into his line of sight. "And I-- I couldn't decide if you were safer knowing or not knowing. But you can't look for what you don't know is there."

It sits heavily on him and that much is clear in his voice, in the way he's looking at Dorian now.

"They slipped a note into a pocket last time we saw each other... and I have no idea when they did it." No doubt Dorian will understand some of those possibilities would be worse than others.