SENJO<br/><br/>Nothing was adding up. I never get angry with people and I never dislike them, such emotional handles have no meaning for me. I do however work well with people who I have experience of. When humans work with me for extended periods I assemble a library of their responses and reactions, their behaviours until I feel able to predict within certain parameters their likely response. I attune my own responses against these and work well with them, providing their responses are rational and legal and allow me to work alongside them within my own company-installed command parameters and limitations. I could experience the behaviours of a mass murderer for a year but that would not result in me condoning or participating in his crimes.<br/><br/>I also respond within logical parameters when I first meet people. My training, conditioning and inherent social behaviours result in my personality coming across as neutral but acceptable. Cold, perhaps distant but not unfriendly.<br/><br/>No, I do not dislike people, but the Grason woman was making little sense. I detected heightened emotions over a range of negativities and information that she gave that was inconsistent. The woman was not telling the truth.<br/><br/>I stood away from the desk and my interrupted work and moved to stand in front of the woman where I could see her eyes and body language more clearly. I held my pulse rifle in my right hand, loosely at my side.<br/><br/><strong>"I would not consider the second in command of the security at a highly sensitive facility where dangerous alien life-forms are being contained and who has authority over a team of fifty personnel to come under the heading of 'Security Guard'. A security guard is a grunt, a person without authority. Typical examples can be found dead at your facility as we speak. Without company records or ID it is apparent you are no security guard Ms Grason, but someone more important, so please refrain from lying to us. You know that facility inside out I would hazard. For one it does not have eight stories but three. Carthag Vankatov, late mayor of this colony visited it and recorded his findings. The records he left behind show that he was an intelligent and observant man. I would credit him with being able to count the storeys of a structure, unless more than half of it is sub-surface."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"You worked there for months. Your job was to secure the facility. Your job was to respond to threats, external and internal and move the men under your command to positions in time of emergency where they could most effectively do their jobs. Such a person, second in command of a team of that nature cannot work in a facility the layout of which she is ignorant. You know the inside of that structure Ms Grason."</strong>I held out a sheet of flexcard and a stylus.<strong>"Please draw it. All of it. I may advise you check your memory well, it is quite possible that you will be leading us in there."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"I find it highly unlikely that during the present incident during which time we know that you witnessed the creatures attacks and behaviours, that you did not witness other events. There are notes in the log of Mayor Vankatov that describe several scenarios and events from which I have been able, in the last half hour, to draw up a theory of the life cycle of these creatures. Mayor Vantakov did not spend months in a facility where the creatures were being contained and examined. You did. I find it highly implausible that you remain ignorant of their behaviours beyond their intelligence and aggressive nature."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"You are aggressive and agitated when questioned. Your story of a solo escape when a squad of marines is needed to stop their attacks and fifty of your men died is not plausible. Your story of meeting your associate is thinner than this sheet."</strong>I held out the flexcard.<br/><br/><strong>"I believe it is in this military units primary interest to request that you hand over your weapons, take a seat - please - and speak the truth. I am currently unable to construct a scenario in which we should trust much of what you say."</strong><br/><br/>I held out my left hand.<strong>"Please give me your gun and any other weapons you have."</strong>