#// Summons Herculean strength to write a single RP response and then immediately trips and falls into a ditch

[ofradiances]

Ike did try to look. His eyebrows furrowed together at the beautiful script that he nonetheless was powerless to attempt to read. It therefore didn't do him any good and he resisted the urge to frown. Cheating wouldn't do him any good.

"Right. Right he was across the monastery so it's likely he couldn't have done it. I should call on those witnesses right?"

It sounds simple when it's laid out like this. Straightforward, like a problem that can be solved if Ike just keeps pushing. He's good at that, good at pushing. He likes when things are straightforward. He likes when people are honest.

He knows the point of the exercise is that that won't always be the case. But he could dig honesty out of them probably.

"And ask them what they saw...?"

Objection! This man is not fit for a court of law!