"I know. I -" He rakes his fingers through the dirt in frustration. "How can anyone even know if that's true? It's not like we can ask the people at home."

And yet he's heard it, from multiple sources, and with all the other weirdness surrounding this place he's willing to accept it as possible.

"Raph, I want to believe you. I do. It's just..."

Just what?

And then something else his brothers have been reluctant to explain to him clunks into place.

"Raph. That scar on Leo's back. Was... was that me?"