( So there have been more incidents like the one in the Tower.

... Well. Not exactly like the one in the Tower, nothing has ever been like it, but. )

That would be infuriating. It is not the same, of course. The wounds I've wished to conceal are not the physical sort. But and I understand the importance of a secret. ( If she hadn't withheld the fact she was a witch in Palermo, she would have burned to death.

She doesn't think Wrench needs to hide his scars and would see him no differently, but it doesn't matter, because Wrench does. )