"I found her tied up after . . . after she had been assaulted." Oleg answered, staring ahead. The passage of an hour had helped him calm down a little, but this was not something he was going to get over easily. "I did not get to see who did it. I did not get there in time to stop it." Oleg said, his words cold and guilt-ridden. "You must know what had happened at the school today. I was looking for Chloe before heading to class. I just wanted to talk to her. When I went by the Torch's room, the door was locked. I knocked, and nobody answered. It . . . that is unusual. I broke it down, and the door to the dark room . . . and then I found her. She was unconscious." It was not easy to talk about it, and it was not easy to lie, even by omission. It felt wrong.<br/><br/>"I brought her here. I did not know what else to do."