[He glances at her hurt wrist, his mouth twisting down into a frown - he would offer to help with it, but his lack of medical knowledge as far as treating injuries go isn't all that good. So all he can do is just feel a sympathetic twinge, nothing more.]
That's alright, Elizabeth. Me? I learned that we can't take a person's expression of their feelings or actions for granted.
[He lets the statement sit in the air, heavily, before he continues to speak.]
I voted for Luke. He was experiencing symptoms akin to a cold, you see, and if you remember, Alice was feeling the same way too. She touched the foot in the fountain, Shijima verified that. If the illness did come from the foot, then how did Luke get sick, if he had supposedly never come into contact with it?
[The whole illness thing is a different beast, but he moves on - they can discuss that later.]
Plus, he has...had a boyfriend. A rather strangely quick little romance with that boy, Adam Parrish. I'm not against the idea of pure, young love, but...something seemed off. Luke seemed tired. He seemed to be withdrawn from most of the group. I talked to the both of them, and they told me very nice words about how they both were working on borrowed time, ready to experience what they could of their relationship before it was too late. Adam was Luke's shining knight of honor, ready to defend him at every turn, and Luke himself...well, he was strangely defensive. I barely accused him and he was ready to list all the reasons why he was innocent.
[A pause - he hardly wants to overload Elizabeth with information, but he feels he needs to get his thoughts down now, to share them with someone he knows will take this all to heart.]
Luke was innocent, of course, but he was complicit with the murders of two children, being a staff member. And if I have to be honest, Elizabeth...I would keep Adam in mind as a possible suspect. It's possible he was a victim too, but judging by the fact that they communicated and developed a relationship in such a short amount of time, as well as the fact that Adam wasn't at all that angry or shocked that his lover was one of our enemies all this time...
I don't think he can be marked off the guilty list just yet.
SORRY FOR THE TL;DR
That's alright, Elizabeth. Me? I learned that we can't take a person's expression of their feelings or actions for granted.
[He lets the statement sit in the air, heavily, before he continues to speak.]
I voted for Luke. He was experiencing symptoms akin to a cold, you see, and if you remember, Alice was feeling the same way too. She touched the foot in the fountain, Shijima verified that. If the illness did come from the foot, then how did Luke get sick, if he had supposedly never come into contact with it?
[The whole illness thing is a different beast, but he moves on - they can discuss that later.]
Plus, he has...had a boyfriend. A rather strangely quick little romance with that boy, Adam Parrish. I'm not against the idea of pure, young love, but...something seemed off. Luke seemed tired. He seemed to be withdrawn from most of the group. I talked to the both of them, and they told me very nice words about how they both were working on borrowed time, ready to experience what they could of their relationship before it was too late. Adam was Luke's shining knight of honor, ready to defend him at every turn, and Luke himself...well, he was strangely defensive. I barely accused him and he was ready to list all the reasons why he was innocent.
[A pause - he hardly wants to overload Elizabeth with information, but he feels he needs to get his thoughts down now, to share them with someone he knows will take this all to heart.]
Luke was innocent, of course, but he was complicit with the murders of two children, being a staff member. And if I have to be honest, Elizabeth...I would keep Adam in mind as a possible suspect. It's possible he was a victim too, but judging by the fact that they communicated and developed a relationship in such a short amount of time, as well as the fact that Adam wasn't at all that angry or shocked that his lover was one of our enemies all this time...
I don't think he can be marked off the guilty list just yet.