"Artwork only in the widest possible sense. Certainly done by an artist of skill, a professional rather than a hobbyist, I thought, but the subject was not one of which I am familiar. The piece was erotic in nature. It put one in mind of the boy Eros at The Prandium Secuii." Théodore explains, Aimé's shudder telling of the boy's distaste for the General. No-one that Théodore had met as yet had liked the man.
"There were several pieces, I was only presented with two of the set. General Jaillet told me there were more than he had not yet come into possession of. He wanted me to value them. They were... images of a very youthful young man, although there was little detail of his facial features, the subject did had a remarkable... similarity to yourself, if I might say."