No, you've misunderstood. It's what he told Raina. And she wasn't supposed to tell me -- she was supposed to take a deal that would plead me out of mine.

[It was almost too much information, but Chilton wasn't about to pander secrecy now. Abduxel would see through any attempt to obscure, and there was a chance the demon would mistake Chilton's sudden open honesty as vulnerability.]

He hasn't spent much time sweet-talking me, actually, he knows I'm expecting it. Why -- has he to you?