[Closed] All You Have Is Your Fire

[maltesefalcon]

Who: Cerrit Agrupnin, Alex Conklin and a surprise friend that will help us later
What: A jailhouse conversation
When: Early July
Where: The Marrow Island Jail
Warning(s): Discussion of incarceration, death, arson, cults, cultists, murder, corruption, etc.


It was not, in fact, the cult nonsense that sent Cerrit to look at the jailhouse records and see who was currently incarcerated. It was a conversation with Elias Coldwood, one that had made him consider the value in taking a piece off a chess board.

That said, as news of the past of the Larkin estate starts to come out, there's more urgency in him to meet the person who burned it down.

He may be acting quickly, and perhaps with a little less oversight than he ought to, but he's smart enough to not go alone to visit a dangerous criminal; Alex gets the scoop and an invitation to join Cerrit on his little jailhouse visit. Cerrit is waiting outside the building when Alex arrives.

Comments

[maltesefalcon]

"Who was it that found you, afterwards?"

Just in case they had ties to the cult or something he could trace.

[cult_classic]

"I don't know the officer's name, unfortunately," Lysander confesses. Though information like that should be in the arrest report, at least. "...May I ask the two of you a question?"

[saintoflangley]

"You can ask," Alex says. "Whether we answer is an entirely different animal."

Well, at least he's being honest.

[maltesefalcon]

"And we might not know the answer, considering we weren't on the island at the time of your arrest."

Also honest, but gentler, and tipping their hand just a little.