“Thank you all for staying,” Nathan addressed the quartet in the dining hall of Open Spaces with him, ignoring the fact that they had been given no choice in whether they stayed. “I have some questions for you about the attack on your employer.”
“We’ve already told the other detective everything we know,” Dennis Harrison said agitatedly. “Why do you need to ask us more questions?”
“Because you were all pretty drunk when you answered those questions, and I’m hoping you’re all more sober and alert now, and able to remember more,” Nathan said. Like him, they were all holding a mug of coffee, from which they were sipping constantly as they fought to stave off tiredness, and in their cases, alcohol induced mental fog. “Things will go quickest if we begin at the beginning, and you all tell me
