"That's fair, but again, associating with a maleficer."
She pauses. "If you've killed somebody already this would be a really good time to tell me."
In Mandarin: "Lily! Lily! She hurt me! Lily, help!"
Marian is INTERNALLY SCREAMING but she has a lot of practice at keeping that sort of thing internal.
"Yeah," Marian says tightly. "I - sorry - but he's my patient so there had fucking better be an investigation."
In English: "Respectfully, I'm so fucking dead if I'm lying, mostly from him. But I'm willing to submit to truth potion."
She pats his head softly. In Mandarin: "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do."
"Did he, like, literally confess it to you? Are you sure he was telling the truth?"
Marian...doesn't, actually, doubt that this kid would have killed another kid to get in. He did, in fact, talk to her about doing crimes. She just...doesn't want him to die. Because she's attached. Like an idiot.