prismatica | CASE 001 ♞ [VIDEO]

( The feed flickers on to a young man sitting at a table in the apartments in all of his courtroom finery. While he very much looks as though he's done his best to make himself as presentable as possible, there's no disguising the bags under his eyes. This is very much a man who has not had very a good night's sleep in a long time. )

Good morning. For those who I've not met before, my name is Miles Edgeworth. I was a prosecuting attorney from Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America on the planet Earth.

( Truly, what has his life come to that he has to make that clarification! )

I have been reflecting on the events that have occurred since our arrival on this planet, particularly during the festival. ( The plants had been bizarre and all, but he hadn't overly involved himself with them, having found other people more suited to what he has decided to consider extreme weeding. )

While I understand that the natives of this world might be more accustomed to free intimate contact between strangers, I consider it downright criminal that our food and drink at the festival might have been laced with substances that affect our behaviour without our knowledge or consent. If anyone suspects they may have consumed some of the contaminated items, I would be most interested in talking with you further.

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( That certainly qualifies as surprising, all right! Edgeworth has so many questions, but is also wary of potentially overwhelming the poor woman. The subconscious is able to recall what the conscious cannot. Memories are ... truly remarkable.

He only wishes his own was more reliable.

Deciding to focus on his most prominent question, he asks: )

Did his mother know he would lose so many of his childhood memories?

[Eva pauses a moment, then sighs out. She looks troubled over her inevitable answer.]

I imagine she had to. You don't give a child those sorts of doses without knowing that. I don't know whether she had a doctor help her or not but...

[Mmf. Is it too much to explain further?]

The accident. She's the one that caused it. It... wasn't pretty at all. And the patient witnessed the accident as well.

If I put myself in her shoes for a moment, I would say the reason she did it was because she didn't want her son to suffer or be afraid of her. A selfish reason, yes, and it's not something I personally would have done.

( It's not what Edgeworth would have done in that woman's shoes, but he can understand the sentiment, even if he does not agree with it. She'd wanted to save her son the pain of living without his brother. And it wasn't as though she wouldn't have had to live with the guilt every day of her life...

He wants to ask what sort of accident it was, but perhaps that would be insensitive. It's not like there's anything he can do about the situation, even if something about it does rub him the wrong way. )

I see.

( A beat. )

Thank you for sating my curiosity.

No problem. If you're curious about anything else, feel free to ask. I can't go into detail about client specifics, of course, like names or anything like that. I'm sure you understand that however.

Of course.

I cannot think of anything else I would like to ask at this point in time. I will certainly let you know if I think of any further questions, however.

CASE 001 ♞ [VIDEO]

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