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[color=897691]”4:30? Well that’s a bummer, that’s totally when my interview with Dennis ended!”[/color] The reporter exclaimed. [color=897691]”I went to my room after that. So I don’t exactly have a leg to stand on here…”[/color] She scratched her head, a silly grin across her face [color=897691]”Well, at least I was with Dennis for the rest  of the day, so I couldn’t exactly have prepped the poison and stuff, right?”[/color] She wondered out loud, hoping that was a convincing enough story. After all, there was no time to waste. Chasing her trial would ultimately do just that, she knew.

It was worrisome that there were so many possibilities beyond 4:30. Bliss, Calvin, Max, Denis (she assumed, as she had left him in his room) and herself. And  maybe half of the people had spoken up! The meeting was indubitably important, but right now they had no way to determine who exactly it could’ve been simply by naming their alibis. [color=897691]”I don’t reckon someone actually overheard Mercy planning a meeting around that time? If she did examinations today, no way it was something medical.”[/color] Unless, of course, someone had a medical secret… perhaps they ought to come forward and do her a favor of a big, fat scoop!

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Cyrus’s alibi was rock solid, as he had been with Emily in the break room as she had already stated. But there was something else bugging him. Something was out of place that they had overlooked. And it had become more important than ever in light of recent evidence.

[color=D1c2bf]“So, Max, you were preparing for the party after you left Mercy, correct? So if you left there at 4:30, you must’ve noticed your badge went missing approximately… between 3:30 and 4:30 PM ?”[/color] They didn’t know exactly when Max left Mercy, but this gave them a pretty wide time margin regardless. [color=D1c2bf]“If you aren’t sure you lost your badge there, it might be smart to go over the possible places you could’ve lost it.”[/color] Cyrus proposed. [color=D1c2bf]“Ice and Alice were already there when you left Mercy. They, or anyone after  them, must’ve noticed if Mercy found your badge. Because from our accounts, Mercy wasn’t alone until Calvin left her.”[/color]

For certainty, he looked at the people who visited Mercy after Max: Alice, Ice, Caora, Jezebel, Zach, Braden and Calvin. [color=D1c2bf]“Just to ascertain: Did any of you see her find this badge?”[/color] It would’ve been quite an important find, and doubted it wouldn’t have been brought up by now.

He then turned to Max. [color=D1c2bf]“That badge is a valuable clue, thus we must try to deduce its involvement as closely as we can. I’d like you to tell me the things you did today before you went to Mercy. Where have you been and who did you see?  That badge is a potential murder weapon, Max, we must know  all possibilities here.”[/color] Cyrus sighed.  Cyrus considered the police officer a good man, and hoped he could take this chance to clear his name from the suspicion the item incurred.