Landel did seem like the sort of person who would enjoy that spectacle. The whole arrangement had probably been done with him in mind. Aguilar might have mocked them, but he had a feeling Landel would have taken even more pleasure in it. Given what Guy had said, the outcome would have no doubt been the same, but was their experience any better? Did it matter?

The last part had him frowning, though. "What do you mean?" Given that he'd yet to actually try and discuss this with others who hadn't been involved, Sai had yet to run into any of the associated problems. If there was an explanation for why he hadn't heard anything about this before, he'd like to hear it. It would honestly make sense for the Institute to have some hand in keeping word from spreading around, now that he thought of it. That wouldn't be much different from things they'd managed to do in the past.

The seal upon his tongue came to mind then. Funny how he'd started to actually forget about it.