<blockquote><div><cite>Trr9896 wrote:</cite>"If it were me, or even a possessed me, why did I just take one, if I got away with one, why not just have eaten all of you last night? I'm better off with you all around."</div></blockquote><br/><br/>"That's a really poor defence," Tieh noted, pulling her knees up to her chest and resting her chin on them. "Killing<span style="font-style: italic">all</span>of us would have left you alone out here, and would have been difficult to explain back at base. It would have been almost impossible for you to get away with that, too, even assuming you were capable of moving stealthily with a full stomach. Killing<span style="font-style: italic">one</span>of us would have been pretty dumb, too, though, which is part of the reason I'm not completely convinced that you did. You don't really seem stupid enough to kill somebody in the middle of the night, in a small group of people who already distrust you for your religious practices, then just hang around and wait for the disappearance to be discovered."