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[oom: Shufti and Guppy compare notes on the Teja Murder case. And despair slightly.]

Shufti, having made a brief pit stop home, looks around the bar for one of two people. Not spotting either, she leaves a note for Yrael.

'Yrael,
Apparently you have information on the Teja murder case. If you could fill me in please, that would be great. If you have evidence that can help us get to a conviction, I daresay I could find you a bottle of Atlantean in thanks for your trouble.
Shufti'

She wishes Guppy hadn't hacked the guy off; it's a rather expensive bribe. One she can afford, but that's not the point.

Her badge visible, she sits nearby and keeps looking for people of interest.

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"Well, if you can get me something to work with, since tuna is so much cheaper, I could offer you tuna every day of this month as an alternative if you want. But I'd like the evidence please. Guppy and I trusted you with the task of helping us, and I'd rather reward you than get you arrested for obstructing the case."

"I have not obstructed the case," he mwrrs winningly, leaning against her ankles. "I merely gave the evidence to whom I thought had the most right to it."

Because while he likes Shufti when she's bribing him with tuna, he has no respect for Security. He is bad about carrying grudges, and the then-head of Security made the mistake of laughing at him for being preposterous when he offered his services to the Security force.

"What evidence do you have, then, that I could add to for the price of either a bottle of Atlantean or a dinner of tuna every evening for a month?"

Shufti scritches Yrael gently.

"I think you have better senses than any of us humans, amongst other abilities. You found out about the frozen gelatine bolts, which was better than any of the rest of us. We managed to retrieve that evidence, but there's nothing to prove we can link it to Urquhart. I've heard second hand bits of what you found, I'd like to hear exactly what evidence you got against Urquhart please. And preferably what happened when you confronted him."

"What evidence I had was an eye witness having seen him in a tree overlooking where Teja and Charlie were attacked, before the attack, and having seen him returning to the bar afterward, around the time when I found Teja and Charlie," he says, leaning into the scritches despite himself. "It places him at the scene at the time of the attack."

"Also, Urquhart's scent is in the tree overlooking the place of attack, and the marks in the same tree that you also saw. I could smell the faint scent of gelatin in the wounds, and found the gelatin ice bolts he had hidden among the tree roots below where he was later."

"When I questioned him regarding what he had seen on the day of the attack, he was evasive despite my insistence that answering my questions was in his best interest, as it may help to clear him of suspicion. Instead, it only served to deepen my suspicions of him, suspicions that were confirmed when he shot at me with his crossbow."

Shufti notes all of that down.

"Thank you." she says. "Were you hurt? What happened after he shot at you?"

"He leapt down from the tree, onto me, and we fought for a time," Yrael says, "until I convinced him what he had done had been a very foolish decision."

"His mind couldn't bear up against much, however, and he lapsed into what seemed to be a traumatic flashback from some other time before I left him."

Shufti nods.

"Thank you." she says. "That's been very helpful. Do you have anything else to add?"

"Yes, I do," Yrael says, coiling up on her foot.

"I like my tuna raw."

Scritch. "Then tuna it is. I'll be sure to tell Bar to take it off my tab for you."

Small smile. "I'll tell Guppy to feed you fish next time he tries to help with the detective work. Save him stressing himself out."

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