by Rattrap » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:16 am
A record of the events of Friday eve through early Saturday morning, recorded by Private Williams, addressed to Altias Bromn with a copy addressed to Captain Taliaferro:
This conversation underwent with individuals 'Dhugal', 'Aerithya Ty'ahel Silverwind', 'Angilena Tarek Holmes' if I heard correctly, and Corporal Thomas Daniels during a visit to see Phlynn, a child accused of two counts of murder still pending trial:
Dhugal: "Bluidy hell...can�t they at least clean th' lad oop a bit?"
Myself: "Actually, I was on my way to doing just that when I found that the child had had some...uninvited guests. His relocation then became a priority. Since then...well, we have other things on our minds. I hate to sound ineffectual, but with some of our fellow guards simply not returning from patrols, the various vampire attacks throughout Myrken Wood as well as here...well. It's a tough time."
Phlynn (upon the group's approach to his cell; Cpl. Daniels was already present prior to our arrival): "A...Angie? Aeri, is that...you?"
Dhugal: "It's nay liek ya hae t' build a new gaol...just a boocket o' water, a bar o' soap, a towel and a new...whatever th' bluidy hell it is he wears..."
Silverwind (in response to my comment, addressing the uninvited guests): "Who?"
Myself: "An individual named Ahmed - Cpl. Thomas here and his partner had a run in with him before."
Holmes: "Phlynn...Phlynn...It's Trip...an' Angie..."
Silverwind: "Hello Phlynn, we brought you some things."
The things in question were some small items - wild flowers that were dethorned at the front lobby, and some folded parchment
Dhugal: "Ah. Aye. Ahmed."
Cpl. Daniels: "Do you know this Ahmed?"
Dhugal: "Ummm...a mickle but...we both had designs oon kil...ummm...reprimanding a certain lady th' oother eve..."
Phlynn: "I'm cold in here...I want to go home. I d-...don't like it here."
Cpl. Daniels (to Dhugal's slip of the tongue): "I'm sorry, say that again?"
Dhugal (to Phlynn, having ignored the request made by Cpl. Daniels - we both felt at the time the question prompted by Dhugal to the child Phlynn was more important than the request made by the corporal): "Phlynn...they say y' killed two children, lad...is tha' true?"
Phlynn (in his usually strange demeanor, addressing the gifts the two women had brought): "Those...are for me?"
Holmes: "We...we got you...a flower too. A glass one...Trip 'n me...thought ye'd like it...it'd never die...but the guards took it...but...we got you this, too."
Here she handed the boy the small piece of folded parchment, styled as such to resemble a dragon.
Phlynn: "I...love all of them."
Dhugal: "Answer th' question laddie...y' kill those two?"
Phlynn (again, ignoring the question, apparently addressing the small animal that traveled with Holmes, known as 'Trip'): "Is this...you, Trip?" (Finally, to Dhugal's questioning: ) "I...d-...did. But I had a reason to do it...they deserved it...I...guess they did. Because I failed, Dhugal."
Silverwind: "Why? Why Phlynn? Tell us why you did such a thing?"
Cpl. Daniels (to Phlynn): "Was your life in danger by those two?"
Phlynn: "I wasn't a good protector...I found them. They killed a boy who was my friend, and he didn't deserve to die. They both did. I didn't protect him like I *should* have...h-...he was a boy who made flowers. They...forced him to make flowers for them...and they threatened him with a knife, but he didn't understand. He wasn't much more than a baby...and then they stabbed him to death, and I found them trying to take my flowers."
Cpl. Daniels: "Dhugal...ask the boy if his life was in danger. It's critical that we know this. It'll make all the difference."
Phlynn: "So I...did my job. I protected the rest of the...children from them. I made sure they wouldn't hurt anyone else."
Dhugal: "It was a fae, wasn' it...they killed a fae?" (To Cpl. Daniels: ) "He killed them because they'd killed his friend."
Silverwind: "An eye for an eye."
Phlynn: "...yes, sir. And I was supposed to protect them. But I couldn't get there in time. I ran...and I ran and *ran*, but I didn't make it fast enough...they would've hurt the others. They found the others, and would have hurt them...but they're my friends."
Cpl. Daniels: "Vengeance doesn't make it right. An eye for an eye, as the miss said, will only make his all blind. But it doesn't sound like that was exactly the cause...protecting another against an aggressor...well, anything to shave off the blunt 'murder'. But is there any proof? Where are these 'fae'?"
Dhugal: "He had t' stop them before they killed th' oothers...y' heard him...if he ran f' help, th' fae would hae been deid before he'd fetched help for them."
Silverwind: "Phlynn, tell them. Tell them the truth lad. Do not be afraid. I shall see that they are safe."
Phlynn: "B-...but I can't tell anyone. Even if I die for it...it's my job to make sure they're all right. It's my job to make sure they're all right."
Cpl. Daniels (to Dhugal): "There are other ways to stop someone than killing them. Again - how do I trust the testimony of an obviously strange child?"
Holmes: "Fae are frail sir and quickly frightened. If the two mortal boys had attacked the other children..."
Dhugal: "I know a fae...quite weel...them boys tearin' oop pne o' their flower beds would kill them as surely as a blade across their throat." (To Holmes: ) "Are y' all right? Lassie?"
Cpl. Daniels (To the general testimony of the group): "Assuming this to be the truth, I understand what you're saying. But it doesn't excuse the crime - again, there are other ways to stop someone from doing something other than killing them!"
Phlynn (Finally responding to Cpl. Daniels, apparently): "But that's what I *did*! I *know* it was right! ...I don't care if anyone else thinks it w-...was wrong. It was my job...they tried to take flowers from my garden after, and Jaeval wouldn't want that...never ever. I did what I was supposed to. They would've hurt the others."
Dhugal: "He's a child, d' ye nae ken? They do nae think mooch...they react...y' ne'er seen a child throw a fit in grief or anger? They do nae stop t' reason things oot."
Cpl. Daniels: "That only means volatility. If we let out every criminal here who came to be here only because they didn't reason their actions out, there would be a lot more blood raining into the ground than there is already."
Dhugal: "But they're adults, aren't they? They�ve reached th' age o' reason...or so it's assumed...he's nae but a wee bairn himself...and he stood by his friends..."
Cpl. Daniels: "Not *all* of them."
Phlynn: "I'm...not telling them where the faeries are at."
Silverwind: "Phlynn, the child they killed...where is he? If they could see him, there is proof..."
Phlynn: "He's...where the faeries are. I'm not *telling* them, Aeri!"
Dhugal: "Phlynn...if they convict y' o' killin' th' boys...at best, they'll lock y' awa' for years...at worst...they'll destroy you...an' who then will protect y' fae friends?"
Silverwind: "They just need to see the child Phlynn so they know you speak the truth..."
Phlynn: "No one...but they won't need me...only those two boys knew where they were. If I die, then no one will ever know...and maybe that's how it should be...they won't see him. Not even if I...if I showed them. Do you think he just died *yesterday*?"
Silverwind: "Please Phlynn...tell them...Phlynn...please...let us help..."
Phlynn: "NO!"
Dhugal: "Fine...y' keep y' oon counsel...I' ask Vialweh if she can find it...I hae nae doobt she will suss out where th' fae an' th' body are..."
Phlynn: "I'm not telling! Go away! ...leave me alone, because I'm not telling!"
At this point I escorted Dhugal from the Gaol, but I'm sure Cpl. Daniels will add anything of importance I might have missed in his attached report.
- signed, on this day of Saturday the 12,
Private Janis Williams