“ SOO….. YOU CAN KEEP ME OUTTA JAIL?”
THE QUESTION POSED is not one she usually asks. what can she say? she gets paid to steal, gets paid to kill, gets paid for all the nasty little things. but THIS? this whole ACCUSATION that she had robbed a jewel store was rubbish.
IT WAS A BANK.
“ LOOK CAUSE i got – i got a kid at home. her name’s lilith and i really can’t go to prison or nothin’. she - her family was killed a couple years back and i’m the only thing she’s got left and i JUST CAN’T go to jail. ”
❛ That depends. ❜
She tries to keep a PROFESSIONAL front, hands clasped atop the table and back stiff. But the sight of the young girl strikes a chord within her, which should remain unstruck in such a SITUATION. The jeweler swore the girl had broke in and gotten away with expensive necklaces, which were missing from the scene.
❛ Are you going to cooperate? ❜
The girl’s words of PATHOS was the kind of stuff Iris had learned in the Police Academy. An attempt at some form of sympathy, to invoke emotion within you so that you were SWAYED. Iris knew better, but couldn’t help be swayed regardless. She was a young child, after all --- they didn’t have her on record, therefore she was a first time offender. ( Or good at getting away. ) It couldn’t hurt to believe her INNOCENT for the moment.
❛ I understand, and I want to help you. I promise. But to do that I NEED to know what really happened. So, tell me: did you go to that jewelry store at any point in time today? ❜