--- Little Bastard -- 100 -- SHADOWS ---
"I swear to Iocus, I didn't do it!" The boy shouts. He has tears in his eyes.
Neither Mythen nor I give him any sign that we've noticed. We've both encountered this type of suspect before.
"Come on," I tell him, grabbing a lock of his hair. "Cut the hystrionics. Tell me the truth."
"I didn't do it," he sobs. "I didn't-I didn't-I didn't...."
He's a good actor, I admit. But Bellatrix is even better at acting, and she slips from the mother-type into a fierce, vicious she-demon.
And soon enough, we have that confession from the melodramatic little bastard.