Without breaking eye contact, Althea slowly moves towards Caitlyn. "That would certainly be possible", she says, "though that'd mean we'd have one person less who can stand guard at night. After the loss of Coco, that would require much longer shifts from everybody else. Not great. Also, that would be highly unnecessary, yes, harmful even, if you are indeed not responsible, and someone else was, as it would leave you quite helpless to anything they tried. It would be much better if we could ascertain your innocence somehow."<br/><br/>Having reached Caitlyn, Althea stops, and looks at her with a sad expression on her face. "Most of our small group seems convinced you are responsible, though", she continues softly, gently brushing some strands of Caitlyn's hair out of her face, "And may even be wanting to harm you should you have been lying to us. But I believe that you won't betray our faith in you like that. I believe you will tell us the truth. And no matter what, I won't let them harm you if you do."<br/><br/>She takes a short pause. "But whatever you do, don't lie to me", she continues. "Now, please describe to me, truthfully, anything you remember from last night that will help us figure out what happened to Coco."<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Just for the record, everything Althea says here is true.<br/><br/>I decided to have Althea ask a general question in the end instead of her asking many specific, small questions to speed things up a bit - otherwise, it would likely take many posts by me and Trr, which would likely take quite a while.</div></div></div>