[He had played this game long enough to know what it might lead to, and he might almost dare this one to get one with it if only for the fact that Aldrip would probably be leveled by Jinx in his name. What a way to honour one's father, right? It would show the Council not to mess with them either, or so he liked to think. Council was stubborn though and their righteousness on the subject of justice was idiotic at best.]

A group effort then. Kirimann is very talented for investigative work. [He was, of course, testing the waters on how much she would have told about him in the first place. There was also the sister, who was problematic on so many levels he would pay to have her strung up in a basement for years.]

As far as you know? You haven't spoken directly with her? She would be the one to give a good first hand account of her interaction with Jerry and the Council thereafter. [One of the few people he bothered to use a name for outright.] I'm her father, not her jailer on behalf of the Council.