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[Private to Ben | Audio]

Ben, I need to know what happened today.

[Private to Zack | Audio]*

I need to know if you two have spoken. He's going to be held accountable for someone's murder [and Rhade is very perplexed by this, because Ben doesn't lie], and he's been concerned with how you were going to react when you spoke to him. Did he seem in control of himself?

[Private to Charles | Audio]

Would it be possible for you to examine and speak with Ben? Review him for outside influences? Fugue states? I don't believe he is lying to me when he says he was in his room, but considering this ship...

[Private to Dylan | Audio]

[All that awkward from before? Have to forget it.] I need your help.

[Warden Filter | Audio]

Who here is a competent detective or is experience with forensics, or alternately has an inmate you would trust to assist in an investigation? [He wants to be careful and not get Ben into more trouble.]

OOC: And I'll be adding a bunch more to this, and there will be a plotting post for detective types to investigate.
*Timed to after his conversation with Ben.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

He has. And every person he's attacked he's admitted to. The most obfuscation he ever used was not mentioning an attack, as with happened with Ladd. But when I confronted him, he admitted it. He wouldn't lie to me.

He claims that he was in his room. So the only alternatives are that he wasn't in control of his actions or someone knows Ben well.

The former could be tested by a telepathic scan.

If he agrees to it, I've enlisted the assistance of Charles Xavier. But I can't force a mental intrusion on my inmate, especially when he's terrified of being mentally reprogrammed. [Which is why he'll be especially angry if that's what happened.]

[He cocks his head and switches to private.]

You don't trust me, do you. [He's noticed that Rhade is keeping him a bit at arms length for this investigation.]

For the record, I've never accessed Ben's mind. [Although Narvin would say the same thing even if he had.]

Do you blame me? You would say that even if you had. [He knows you, Narvin.] You would say that even if you didn't know you had.

Robert is a very good friend of mine. He has been for some time, and Ben knows it. I have directly raised the point to him that he's not a "Nomlie" and Ben fully understood. This was a very specific conversation.

So why would he attack him again?

[Narvin's lip twitches in a hint of a bitter smirk. Yes, Rhade knows him well.]

This Blue Lady superstition of his seems to have quite a hold over him. Could someone have used that against him? If I were to attempt to control him through non-telepathic means, that's what I would do.

Even when the Blue Lady herself were here, in his perception, he told me. He didn't lie to me about what he did.

He may be a killer, but he's a better man than either of us. He would have been honest about his actions, even when they are violent and misguided.

[All that honesty is just *weird*.]

Even if she ordered him to lie to you?

I don't think he's even capable of it if he was told to. The most he has been is not telling me that he killed Ladd until I asked, and then he had thought that Wade's significant other was the Blue Lady.

Between that and the events of the Overlook and the bloodied hands, I imagine he'd be more reluctant to take her at face value.

So, you're saying that he essentially cannot lie. [Weird.] Well, that must make wardening a trifle easier. [If only he could ask Sandoval any question and always get honest answers...]

Perhaps if he was not in situations where this conversation would be necessary, yes.

[Ben does tend to... overreact... when he's upset.]

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