Report IV: Fountain Pen

[plotdeviceturk]

Interrogations were rarely something pleasant to have to go through, ones with the Turks were usually terrifying and one that needed Tseng's personal attention rarely ended with laughter and a cup of coffee. Hopefully this one wouldn't end with maintenance having to patch a bullet hole in a wall again.

There wasn't much in the thin file he held as he watched the person through a mirrored window. So little, in fact, that it bothered him. No matter, there was certainly enough to start off with. He nodded, shooting a glance at the person beside him before entering the room.

Hopefully this wouldn't take more than a few hours, he really didn't want to be in the office until the sun came back up.

[[OOC: Open to whichever you want to tag in as! Good cop bad cop (...or bad cop worse cop as it were) or being questioned! ]]

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[drinkandforget]

But she hadn't. She stared at them blankly, and shook her head.

"I'm not after anything. My goal is to live in peace with my sister. My only quarrel is with people in the way of that." And as far as she knew... that did not include ShinRa.

[plotdeviceturk]

He didn't believe her, not at the moment anyway.

"Then why go snooping around a mako reactor?" He asked, "They're not exactly inhabitable."

[drinkandforget]

A mako reactor? Sounded like something nuclear, to her. But she didn't know why she'd been near one any more than he did.

"I wasn't snooping!" she said, finally getting a bit of spirit back in her frustration. But she doubted saying she didn't know how she got there would be believed.

"You know I'm not carrying anything in or out anyway. Why are you holding me here?"

[plotdeviceturk]

Information wasn't always physical, and reactor technology was something the company still had a firm grip on.

"As I said, this is all quite obviously a slight confusion that can be cleared up with your cooperation. Now, tell me what you were doing in a reactor?"

[drinkandforget]

Confusion, yes, but far more than slight. However unbelievable, she decided to tell the truth.

"The last thing I remember is being in this room. I don't remember being brought here, or before that."

Wait. Maybe the problem wasn't her.

"Did you drug me?" Her jaw tightened.

[plotdeviceturk]

"No." He replied honestly, "Mako has been known to cause memory loss however, I'm sure it will come back."

It certainly wasn't uncommon, and it very well may not come back.

"There have been cases where people forget their entire lives."

[drinkandforget]

She's not sure she believes the person who possibly drugged her, telling her he didn't drug her. On the other hand, it's a relief: He believes her own story.

"That shouldn't happen while they live," she says simply. Her oblivion has its place. It isn't everywhere.

[plotdeviceturk]

"A lot of things shouldn't happen in this world." He replied blandly, "Mako isn't something to go playing around in."

[drinkandforget]

Lethe took the plunge, finally. "What is mako?"

From everything he'd said, she gathered the basic idea: a source of energy that was somewhat dangerous to use. So were many forms of energy.

[plotdeviceturk]

Tseng's eyes narrowed in suspicion. There wasn't a person on the planet that didn't know what mako was.

"I'm going to get you a doctor, Ma'am. There's something that I need verified."

[drinkandforget]

That was very correct. There wasn't a person from this planet who didn't know what mako was. On the planet Lethe, however, or at the river Oblivion, it was different.

She was different.

"I'll wait," she said with heavy irony.