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"Why me?" Khan couldn't help but ask.
"I told you, it sounded like a whim," Luke repeated. "Knowing my uncle, he might simply be interested in Nitis' events."
Khan voiced a faint "oh". Luke had politely decided not to add anything, but it wasn't hard to connect the dots. Raymond's expertise dealt with alterations caused by mana, so the mutations experienced by Nitis' lifeforms had to be an interesting topic for him.
Still, it became impossible to stop Khan's paranoia. The Global Army didn't make most of Nitis' events public, but someone like Raymond Cobsend was bound to have access to accurate reports. He could probably get detailed explanations written by fellow experts through his position.