THE DOOR OPENED. Mischa had drifted off. Actually, what that meant is that her mind wandered. Some might call it sleep. She didn't know what to call anything anymore. She'd barely slept the night of the partying and the yacht and Benito----and since then she hadn't had more than a few winds. She thought she'd drifted off when they put her on the a few hours last night----or was it noon? The morning?----but otherwise she'd fallen into a semiconscious haze.624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYi4a52Zaq
Don't say anything to them, she tried to tell herself. Your brain's out to lunch.
They showed her papers. She stared at them for a time, my head wobbly. Proces-verbal d'audition de la personne gardee a vue, they said. Some kind of a witness statement.
"Your last---chance," said LaForge. "You can see that the others have complied. Your friend Rihanna has confessed.
She closed her eyes, or maybe they were already closed.
Rihanna----no.
"The others have confirmed---yes?"
"Corroborated," said Picard.
No----impossible---a bad dream---someone else's nightmare....
LaForge pushed her chin up from her chest, so she was facing him. "Rihanna says you gave her the gun. You assisted her."
No----not the gun----not my gun.
"No," Mischa managed. "Never---touched a----gun." Her tongue was heavy; her words were coming with great effort.624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ws2kEXiu9
LaForge shook the papers, the witness statements, in her face for emphasis. "You see here. All of them say it. It was le chantage. Blackmail, Mischa."624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52IPyRDoVQ
"Black---blackmail----who----?"624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxD3HALwxo
"Still? Still you insist that you know nothing?"624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUunSq8sFU
"Why would we black----blackmail Diego?"624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZ6HKn00aL
"Diego," LaForge scoffed. "From now on, you are forbidden to call him that."624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgypfwHymIT
"What do----do I call him?"624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWM7d5e9kBM
Picard approached Mischa, holding up an official photo of a balding man in a suit, his posture proud and dignified, giving a speech with the flag of France behind him.624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwuSVF6mpf
It took her only a moment, her mental inebriation notwithstanding. Put a beard and a toupee on the man in the photo....624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6He23SdMO
"Oh, no," she whispered.624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKLF9Aayro
Diego the Tycoon was Cesar Diderot.624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMrbHpHfVy
Mischa Barton was being accused of assassinating the president of France!624Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTn5ZvFYCV9
