Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Masquerade, Part 10

November 21

Detention Center

3:30 PM

Victoria von Graye

The detention center was much the same way that it was the day before. Felicity and Sky were sitting on one side of the glass with Lily on the other. She was focused on other things as far as I could tell, but her face still lit up as soon as she saw me with Deirdre and Yuri. Lily waved excitedly and gestured for us to sit down as soon as we could. I couldn't help but smile at her optimism despite the notable streaks of darkened skin beneath her eyes. She was tired, but she was still trying to put on a brave face. It was almost twisted how fitting that was of her to do. 

When I settled down alongside my coworkers, I could see that Felicity looked concerned. Sky appeared to be much the same way, but neither of them seemed to be ready to openly phrase it. I found my smile faltering as soon as I realized that there was something wrong. I didn't know how to approach the subject, so I simply sat there in the awkward silence. 

"What's going on?" Deirdre finally questioned when she was able to get a decent hold on her emotions. Her gaze was intense, and I found myself glancing away to keep from accidentally meeting her eyes. 

"Mr. Morix came by earlier," Felicity eventually explained. "He said that he wanted to see how we were doing, and he seemed super tense. I wish I could tell you why he was so upset, but something was going on that he wasn't talking about."

"Mr. Morix simply asked if we knew anything about the case or had any clues as to who the man with white hair was. When he had checked in and understood that we were just as clueless as he was, he pulled away and decided to leave us be for the rest of the afternoon," Sky replied. "I wish I could tell you about why this was, but like Felicity said, we don't know in the slightest what could be bothering him."

I resisted the urge to sigh in frustration. Mr. Morix was certainly starting to bother us with how little he was communicating. I didn't know what to do about all of this, and approaching the matter wasn't going to be easy due to how dodgy he was. "What do we do to make him talk about this?" I questioned softly. I knew that nobody was going to have an easy answer to that question for us, but I found myself asking regardless. 

"I don't know," Felicity answered with a loose shrug and a forced smile. "But I don't think that matters much right now. What have you all found out about the case? I get the feeling that you're coming with some pretty intense news."

"We think that there's something going on with the witness, but I feel like that's pretty obvious given how weirdly she's been acting this whole time," Yuri snorted. "I already reached out to Chief Prosecutor Bespoke to try and see if he would be able to check out the subject of the camera that we found. With how nervous she was, I have to wonder if perhaps he knew that something was going to fall apart when we poked the bear of the camera."

"That's certainly suspicious," Sky agreed with a small nod. "I didn't even realized that there was a camera in the area... What exactly is that about? What did you talk about with her?"

"The camera was found on the side of the nearby apartment complex. According to Ms. Lesa, she was hiding in the bushes at the time of the crime, and that was when she saw everything unfold from afar," Deirdre explained. "As soon as she noticed the camera though, she got anxious and ran off as soon as she had the chance to do so. I don't know what do about it all... Something is wrong, but how are we meant to figure out what is specifically causing her panic?

"She must have lied to you about what happened, and the camera was going to blow all that open," Felicity concluded simply. With how casually she said it, you would have been expecting her to talk about something basic like the weather as opposed the key witness of a murder case.