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Malcolm shook his head. "He needs to feel superior. He needs the attention. He needs someone to mentor - to worship him - and I'm not giving it to him the way he wants it. And maybe he hoped that at some point it might get my attention."

He got up from his seat, agitated, pacing a tight circle in the kitchen.

"I hope it's not him - that makes getting information out of the 'mentor' infinitely more complicated; he gets off on misleading and obfuscating - but I think it's a very real possibility. He's extremely infamous; Quarles certainly would have heard of him. He made his victims suffer, which Quarles would definitely appreciate. He considers himself an artist. He'd definitely respond to a 'fan' who admired his work."