"I'd like to think there's only one person who's been doing all this sneaking around in the dead of night," Erran said. "All these stupid, mean, hurtful things. Like that's bad enough, knowing that it's probably someone I've eaten with and been nice to and everything. If there's two or three of them in this house then fuck, that's just depressing. But I don't know either." He didn't like being suspicious of other people, and it actively made his job harder; he'd been training himself for years now to take people's stories at face value and not judge what they had to say, a habit that worked great for building trust with patients in the office but wasn't so useful for everyday life.
"So Juno's getting along, more or less, that's good," he said. "You guys made it through the trial even though that whole thing was messed up. And hey, that's definitely news that you talked to Cecilia, what'd she have to say?"