It'd been an understandable mistake – their last trial had come perilously close to a wrong vote and they'd been pushed along in that direction thanks to Briar. Not entirely or even primarily, but she'd given testimony about what she thought the culprit had been thinking and how they might have been affected by the motive. Thanks to that, they'd all thought they'd cornered poor, skittish Yuri and it was only by chance (in Briar's eyes) that they'd stumbled across the real culprit.
Even now, most of the way into the next week, it makes her sick to her stomach to remember it. ]
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[ Ah. That's what this is about.
It'd been an understandable mistake – their last trial had come perilously close to a wrong vote and they'd been pushed along in that direction thanks to Briar. Not entirely or even primarily, but she'd given testimony about what she thought the culprit had been thinking and how they might have been affected by the motive. Thanks to that, they'd all thought they'd cornered poor, skittish Yuri and it was only by chance (in Briar's eyes) that they'd stumbled across the real culprit.
Even now, most of the way into the next week, it makes her sick to her stomach to remember it. ]