[closed] man you really freak me out

[lavelly]

Who: Lavellan, Chara, Cole
When: Sometime near the end of May for Chara, [RASPBERRY NOISE] for Cole
Where: Normandy Securities office and Elfhaus
What: Lavellan is bad at children and also investigating
Warnings: Every character involved is their own warning label
[ 01. chara ]

[Lavellan has only met Chara in passing--being coworkers is the only thing they have in common, and Lavellan has a lot of other reasons not to want to associate with someone like Chara. Mostly because he's not that comfortable with even well-adjusted small children, which Chara decidedly isn't.

But the recent events make it unavoidable. All Lavellan knows is that Chara is the one truly responsible for tampering with the Ingress, and yet Shepard is the one that took the fall for it. That had been over a week ago, and there's still no sign of her. So he'd gone to the intermediaries, and while they couldn't give him any of the information he'd really wanted, they had suggested that Chara had agreed to make Shepard a scapegoat.

So that's that. Chara may be young, but some things can't be left to stand. Lavellan wants answers and Chara is apparently the only one that can give them to him. He'd heard they'd been spotted squatting the Normandy office--which takes some gall, honestly, but at least that makes it easy for him--so that's where he goes.

It's open but dark when he enters, and it's impossible to tell whether someone else is even in there. He's starting to feel silly, but this might be his only chance to get an explanation, so he makes himself stay, and call into the dark entryway.]

Chara? If you're there, come out. I just want to talk.

[...No point in coming out weapons drawn. Yet, anyway.]

[ 02. cole ]

[He has no idea where all this is getting him. He has the deepening suspicion that it is in fact nowhere.

All he can find out in his poking around is that there's definitely something more unsettling when it comes to Savrii law enforcement than is obvious on the surface, but he could tell as much himself after his conversation with Chara. Everything he's unearthed is just circumstantial, and he's really no closer to finding out where Shepard is than he was when he started.

He's not used to making every effort and not getting any traction. It's times like this he almost misses the Inquisition, at least for the resources at his disposal. Very little had been hidden from him then.

He's so absorbed in reviewing his own notes that he probably wouldn't have noticed Cole even if he was a truly corporeal being and not a ghost playing at being human who can appear out of thin air as he pleases, but as it is he's very unprepared for being that badly startled.]

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[lavelly]

[He doesn't sigh, but he does look away and exhale with a sense of finality. Well, he had tried. He can't force Chara to cooperate, and he's gotten enough to start somewhere. He hopes.

He nods at the floor, by way of confirmation.]

If you've nothing else to tell me, then yes. I'll let you know what I find.

[inconsequence]

Do.

[They do not turn away. They do not turn their back on that which may leave a knife in it. Given his disposition, they've no reason to trust him when he claims they've been helpful, that they are not to blame. Everyone knows precisely who and what is to blame, here.]

When they find you guilty, [and they will, they believe wholeheartedly,] simply know it will not be you who suffers for it.