[ In truth, Cain doesn't have another name to give — Cain of Idelva is the whole of it — but even if he knew that the man in front of him isn't just Jack, he wouldn't begrudge him this caution. After all, they're strangers. Cain's taking a risk sharing what he knows with someone he's just met, but... 76. It does sound familiar; a code name, indeed.

And it makes Cain believe that the name the man's given him is his real one. The first stone in a foundation. ]

Then well met. You were one of the heroes in Wyver, after the kidnappings, were you not? [ Cain offers a lopsided, rueful grin. ] I found myself with the same dubious honor, in Olympia... so I think this information will be of particular interest to you. It has to do with the organization behind all of that. You may have noticed that the radicals who performed the kidnappings were too well organized for it to be groups acting on their own, on the spur of the moment, like some of them claimed...?