I was talking to Caesar about it a while ago. I knew I had to tell Joseph what happened to me, but I didn't know how.

...'If it was something you wanted to tell me,' he said, 'and you didn't want me to know because it might upset me or make me think less of you, I'd be very angry to learn that you'd kept it from me.' He said it would feel like betrayal, and...I had to admit he was right. Trying to just come out with it was supposed to be less of a disaster than continuing to pretend it didn't happen. Things just...got out of hand. I didn't realize how little he'd really known about the situation.

[Kakyoin didn't look up either; he was about as calm as one could be, but Hierophant retreated under his uniform's sleeve like its user very much did not want to have this conversation right now.]