[color=a187be]"I haven't actually harmed anyone, but I did come very close once. I had just come home from school, and my father and I had an argument over the phone. Had he been there, he would have gone the way my house did. Yesterday, I told Ember I set my house on fire. That's not entirely true -- it exploded. Nothing but burnt-out timbers there now."[/color]

Hugo surprised himself at his own admission. That wasn't the sort of thing he told people about.