"I'm not exactly a professional, but I've picked up a few things through necessity." He shrugged as though it were no big deal, the sparrow unraveling itself and curling back into a loose coil of wire around his wrist.

"Okay, kid. I know it's proven fact that things don't always unfold the same way in every facet of the Kaleidoscope, so to speak." Waver sat down with his weaker right leg folded over his left, cane left leaning on the back of the chair. "And I've had a vague hypothesis of where the heart of the issue is. So where do we want to start?"