The next day after you get back from Clare Melford, a note arrives at everyone's houses.
It's from Dr. Aarons.
He wishes to know what the results of the investigations are, and whether they recommend Roby be released in nine days.
The next day after you get back from Clare Melford, a note arrives at everyone's houses.
It's from Dr. Aarons.
He wishes to know what the results of the investigations are, and whether they recommend Roby be released in nine days.
Suddenly more serious: "I don't know what it was, exactly. Just that it was big, and wild, with massive wings. Out in the countryside. It's been causing a load of trouble."
Meanwhile--
It feels weird going to meet up with Ruby just to go "Good Awful news! You were right not to go to Clare Melford!" But it seems like the sort of thing he should know.
"Lovely to see you too."
She taps him with a fan.
"You've been busy, darling. I have seen neither hide nor hair of you."
"I've been very selfish."
...and he should explain where he has been gone. "And also chasing after Roby."
"Do you want the short and reasonable sounding version, or the insane sounding but detailed one?"
"There are some big granite monument things, put up by a group of people a few years ago who sound remarkably like Roby and his friends. They've made the land around them barren and--" How the hell do you describe bats to someone who hasn't ever seen them. "--They attract dangerous flying things, that will attack you."
"And, they-- well. Did."
It's hard not laugh out of the sheer horror of it all and sound incredibly callous.
"I'm fairly alright. Just... not so much other people. If I get arrested for a murder in Clare Melford-- well, at least you'll know what actually happened."
"I know a very good lawyer, darling, he got me out of it last time there was a mixup at a public bathroom."
"If it comes up, I may have to avail of his services."
He does not make a joke about said lawyer presumably being good at coming up with palatable explanations for things, even if it's very tempting.
"Can't they-- go to the place where the flying dangerous things are and get attacked by them? Or you can describe it to a member of the Royal Society and they can identify it. There aren't animals in Britain no one knows."
"Getting a pre-eminent scientist nearly killed would be one way to prove my innocence.
But I really don't think it could have been described before, or we would have heard about it. You don't get secret man sized aggressive flying things."
"It's lucky that I know you're a reasonable person."
"Could Roby have-- released them somehow? From darkest Africa?"
"The teeth seemed to be drawing them in, somehow."
"I'll have to admit my investigations were not as thorough as they could have been, but I'd like to think I had an excuse."