"Where's Baron?"
I asked Jebadiah accusingly.
"He's keeping his distance."
"From you or from me?"
"Both actually.
I've been guarding your room lately and when I haven't been the sentinels keep watch.
He paces outside your room when I'm not there.
He swears under his breath and he even once tried to assault one of my little friends.
Thankfully they didn't hurt him too badly."
"I never asked for you to guard my room but thank you for looking out for me".
I thought it would better for me to be easy on him.
After all he's provided me a home, full time security, a cure for Clara and Medical aid for Baron.
He had been kind and generous to me and it didn't make any sense for me to be angry at him.
"You know i thought about what you said about Baron and i have to admit you talk alot of sense.
I don't believe he'd be capable of betraying me like that but Baron has never been very brave at times and it's possible that out of desperation he could have come to some sort of agreement with this creature.
I realize that I've been the one that's been awfully ungrateful lately.
You've been very kind and generous towards me and well it hasn't gone unnoticed.
i guess what I'm trying to say is I am thankful and i am grateful to you.
Really i am.
So yeah thanks for the reinforcement at the door.
I mean you set up the works so i appreciate that.
I am so trying too hard aren't?"
"Yes you are and i think it's best that you stop.
Meanwhile i have a plan on how to determine whether this Baron of yours is trustworthy or not".
"Oh really. Impressive.
So what's the plan?"
"Sentinels are excellent for extracting information from the mind."
"So you're just planning to get a confession from him by force?"
"Forcefully yes, think of it as a focerful interrogation".
"I think there may be a better way.
I mean that plan is okay, it's more than okay, it's good, it's great, it's excellent even.
Yet there are other ways of retrieving information.
I mean I've seen real interrogations.
Let's just say I've seen my fair share of confessions.
When the police interrogate a suspect they usully break them down somehow.
They either break em down or work em up.
The concept is the same.
You can heighten a emotion like fear or anger and that emotion can become so powerful that it breaks down the mental barrier by mentally exhausting them.
Emotions are so powerful they literally can zap the energy right out of you both mentally and physically.
So when someone is lost in an emotion, they start to get exhausted and then in that exhaustion a person is very weak and vulnerable.
Sometimes people under interrogation will be in such a desperate state of mind they'll do anything for the anxiety, the pressure, the emotional unrest to stop.
We don't want him giving us any false information, we certainly don't want a false confession on our hands, so i think our best bet is not to use emotional and mental torture, our best bet is to use a more subtle approach.
You see he's been in a rather foul mood, he swears under his breath, he takes swings at sentinels.
He's just waiting for a Chance to blow up on us.
The one thing that seems to really get his goat is the thought of me being taken advantage of or me getting harmed by you in someway.
So what if we created a situation where i was not only in danger of getting hurt but in danger of getting taken advantage of?"
"Theoretically speaking of course".
"Well it's not so much theoretical it's more theatrical.
All we will be doing is putting on a show.
We will simply play a little game of pretend."
"Aw i see and what will i pretend to be exactly?"
"You can take the role of the mad doctor that wants to rip out my brain and ravage my body afterward".
"I must say that's rather graphic.
I think i may have a better idea.
Let's Suppose i require a certain amount of romance before i tear out your brain out.
Would that suit you better?"
"Yeah that's probably a better idea which gives me an idea.
So you're not just a mad doctor but you're absolutely mad about me.
You want our relationship to make it to the next level but I'm not interested in us becoming an item even though we already kind of are.
Boy do i sound like a teenage novelist.
So anyways you demonstrate your passion for me but i reject you, that makes you angry, so you try to attack me but before anything happens Baron comes to the rescue and he fights you off.
I'll try to break you two up.
I'll say to him "Look Baron i was fine.
He wasn't going to do anything.
Oh he didn't mean anything by it.
No i don't love him.
I just like him.'
Then he'll act all betrayed and angry.
He'll claim I don't trust him and that i wasn't honest enough with him.
I'll say something along the lines"Oh I didn't know how you'd react.
I was so afraid you'd be angry just like you are now'.
He'll probably end up being so angry that he'll eventually spill his guts out.
It might not work out exactly like that but at least that's a rough outline of what might happen."
"What happens if this plan of yours doesn't work out at all?"
"Then we'll move on to your plan."
"You're sure that this will work?"
"Oh I'm certain of it.
If he truly is on my side he'll be sure to just come out and say it.
Anger is one of those emotions that can either build you up or break you down.
It can be a weakness or it can be a strength.
He isn't in a familiar environment right now, he's edgy, he's ill at ease, he's uncertain and he's scared.
One sound, one word, one action can probably set him off just like that.
He's not at a advantage right now.
He's in a foreign territory.
He's very vulnerable.
Trust me he will tell me where his loyalties lie."
"Surprisingly i do trust you.
So when do we start?"
