truth_is_cold

[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.

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[Ben is watching, cautious; he trusts Rhade, but he's never comfortable under siege. He's never quite able to believe he's safe, and he's never done well with anything remotely as precarious as this.

He knows how bad it will be when people find out about this. If he were home now, he would be moving a minimum of three territories out of the area.

Zack, he thinks distantly, is going to be so angry.]

I don't... [It's very specific information Rhade is asking for, and Ben's thoughts are running in the complete wrong direction for it, but he knows where to look. He's already reaching into his pocket for his communicator.] You, Zack, Wade Wilson, Iris Wildthyme...

[Which is where he stalls out, but he's got the entry he wants now anyway, holding out his own communicator with it on the screen.]

Edited (derp wrong entry) 2013-05-13 06:59 (UTC)

[He takes the comm carefully and looks at it, carefully listening to conversations.]

Would you mind if I showed this to anyone? It could be important. [But he doesn't want to violate Ben's privacy, so he does ask first.]

[Normally Ben is quick to agree to violation of his own privacy, only recently beginning to realize he has the right to defend it outside of his own head. Now, though, he hesitates with eyes still on the communicator.]

I would rather the information stay with only you unless it becomes important. Alex, Anya, Beatrix... [He's accustomed to not having secrets of his own. But he has been keeping secrets for others for a long time, and he is good at it because he wants to be.]

I will provide it only as a list of people that will know, then. [So Rhade starts taking notes from it.] I'm going to make a report. I'll stay right outside of your room while I do it, I should notice if they come back.

Yessir. [Ben doesn't try to take his communicator back until Rhade has finished with it, though he retreats deeper into his cabin, putting the bed between himself and the door. He's trying to decide what happens next, but this is not a situation he'd ever been expecting to find himself in the center of - he has no precedent to compare it to.

Abruptly:] I didn't hear anything at all. No one has been here to my knowledge, and I haven't gone anywhere. I swear.

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