Nathan O’Neale (A Certain Justice)
The place was overgrown with grass. Gone was the past, and with it the secret, the pain, and the shame. Not entirely, he admitted unwillingly, as he was still alive. He was the last witness, the last one who knew of the events that had happened so long ago. He was the last one who had been involved, but he hardly remembered those dreadful events. A benevolent veil had covered the past, had sheltered his mind, and had subdued his pain. The veil had been like