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[ Niall. Hates. Gadgets.

It isn't that he can't use them, he can -- was quick to learn and familiarise himself with human things as they developed.

He just finds them irritating. People pay more attention to their damnable gadgets than to where they are walking half the time, which is irritating, and insist on barely comprehensible shorthand. That, and he prefers a face-to-face conversation that he can be in control of. Where he can twist and weave words more comfortably than inane text conversations.

This ship is annoying. The fact that he has no idea how he got here is annoying, and he has no doubt the people on it will be even more irritating on top of all that.

Still.

The best way to go about these situations is to read up on the environment as much as possible. Which Niall does, quickly absorbing the information and sighing with increasing frustration. Promises, promises. Everyone can go home eventually. Aside from mysterious diseases and anonymous puzzles and suspicious deaths and screams in the darkness. Niall glowers at his device, then raises an eyebrow as he debates how to go about this. Maybe it will be a little fun after all. ]

Riddle me this, then. Over 200 people aboard this vessel who have awoken here, 2 original crew members and a person of unknown origin fond of red typeface who appears to know more than the rest of you. With strength of numbers in your favour, I would say it appears strange you are unable to disentangle this with greater speed. Perhaps a more strategic approach may help? Or a more intelligent one. Has anyone begun to collate trends, patterns, pooled knowledge and moved beyond generic reactions of horror? I'd hate to put effort into repeating that which has already been done. Screaming wastes both time and oxygen.

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[ Jesus wept you're a dog with a bone. A... peculiarly, stubbornly specific bone. ]

Most call me Red. Are you going to tell my fortune? Or are you simply hoping to cross-reference me in the horror sci-fi annual and find an embarrassing photograph?

I'm simply hoping to avoid having to refer to you as sir/madam in the future. Or, worse yet, "Hey You."

In any case, I have put out a preliminary survey to 1.) collect basic biographical data about a number of people here and 2.) try to determine similarities amongst worlds.

[ Is that a fact?

Good thing Red is a gender neutral designation. He will now carefully ]

I would not object to being addressed in such a way, given the circumstances. Still, since you appear to have moved past that now, did your survey yield anything in particular? Assuming you managed results at all.

No. The only conclusions I was able to take from it were that the majority of people on-board are human or humanoid. Perhaps it is also worth noting that a comparatively large percentage of people come from violent backgrounds.

[ Dot dot dot.

Seriously, Edgeworth? You are making this easy. ]

So you have deduced that we have fallen into the bad part of town, as it were? I could have told you that from disintegrated corpses and screaming, myself.

I don't see how you could take that away from what I said. All I said is that they had in the past been involved in, suffered, or been privy to violence.

[ ... So serious and literal. How... painful.

And that does not sound like a rough neighbourhood to you?

So you propose what, precisely? That the people who have been kidnapped here, as you have, are responsible for the screaming, et cetera?

That is quite the leap you have made there. I have proposed no such thing, in fact the only proposal I made was for a strategic approach to analysing our information. Everything else was a request, observation or question. Is that, perhaps, projection on your part? Something you have been considering yourself?

Absolutely not. I'm merely trying to untangle what it is you're trying to say.

Oh? It doesn't appear that you are very good with knots, then. You appear to have arrived quite far from where you began with no knowledge of the journey. Strikes me as rather rude, if I am honest. Demanding a name off of me without providing your own in turn, then making wild accusations without much founding.

I have made no accusations whatsoever. You are the one who leaps from me saying that there is a certain amount of violence constant amongst all here to saying that this is a "bad neighborhood," thereby implying that what these people had witnessed makes this place dangerous.

[ ... What on earth...

Or, as the case may be, what in space. ]

It was a generalised comment, related to the people you surveyed. I you spoke of violence, so I made an idle observation. Any people where violence is a relating factor and death occurs is something of a bad neighbourhood. Have you considered sedatives for your condition? I think perspective and sleep would help you a great deal. You come across a touch intense.

I do not have a "condition." Stop being facetious. I interpreted your words in a way that made sense; cease being so self-righteous merely because you phrased them badly.

How can you be so sure? Have you been tested, perhaps? Can you prove that you are, in fact, in your right mind?

I am a public prosecutor. They do not allow the mad to prosecute.

And what proof have I that you are indeed what you say you are, that it is not a delusion or falsification? I still do not even know your name, despite you demanding mine.

Miles Edgeworth. And I can demonstrate my knowledge, though I doubt you'd have the faculty to test me.

What makes you say that? Do please enlighten me.

Are you a legal scholar?

If you are enquiring whether or not I am a certified practitioner of the law, then the answer would be no.

Precisely. So I could demonstrate the depth of my knowledge, but it would prove nothing, because you would not be able to know whether or not I was being truthful.

Does lacking certification prevent one from having knowledge of laws and their implications?

It does not. Do you have knowledge of laws and their implications?

To a certain degree, yes, although I'd imagine not in the depth and amount of context that comes from studying it. Then again, the law I am familiar with is largely European, and I cannot say if that was your place of study.

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