Room 424 [early evening]

[momslilassassin]

Ben didn't have classes on Tuesday, so he'd spent the entire day going through the forensic evidence of his mother's crime scene on his datapad, so focused on the task in front of him that he forgot his normal Tuesday routine.

The photos...were grim.

Which was why the door was very firmly shut.

[OOC: But if you want to bug him...]

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[momslilassassin]

"Old problem," Ben replied, "and there's only so much I can learn from still holos."

[solo_sword]

Not asking, but she understood that. "Ah. Do you know when yet?"

[momslilassassin]

"Depends how long it takes me to go through the forensic evidence," Ben said. "A couple weeks, maybe?"

[solo_sword]

She blinked at him. "Forensic evidence?" He could not really be fourteen.

[momslilassassin]

He shrugged, looking self-conscious. "I have to prove something, and saying 'I have a bad feeling about this' isn't going to cover it."

[solo_sword]

"You continue to surprise me," she said after the briefest of pauses. It wasn't a bad thing, but wow.

[momslilassassin]

"In a good way?" he checked.

[solo_sword]

"Yeah," she said with a little smile. "But I look forward to the day when our family can stop doing things like examining forensic evidence while still in school."

[momslilassassin]

"This is a one-time thing," Ben promised.

[solo_sword]

"I won't deny I'm glad to hear that," she conceded. And really, it was the fact that he had to do it in the first place.

[momslilassassin]

"It's important that this one is done right," Ben said, a little too insistently.

It probably wouldn't be hard to guess the only case he'd care this much about.

[solo_sword]

Jaina honestly wasn't even trying to think about it. She was getting bombarded with problems from her own time, and she was a little worried about what would happen to her drive to fix them if she started thinking too hard on the details of how much things sucked in the future despite all her efforts. "And somehow I don't doubt that you'll make sure it is," she told him.

[momslilassassin]

"I'm working on it," he said. "I'm going to have to call in some favors."

Let's not think too hard about how he got to be in a position where people owed him favors.

[solo_sword]

Oh, too late. "...Why does that make it sound like you have more contacts than I do?" she wondered.

[momslilassassin]

Ben smiled. "Because I'm astral?"

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, yeah," she said teasingly. "I should probably be going. I left a ton of stuff I have to get back to." And she was deeply excited about it, yes.

[momslilassassin]

"And you look thrilled to do it," he said affectionately.

[solo_sword]

"I swear sometimes I think the military only loves me for my brilliant mind," she deadpanned. "I'll see you later, Ben."