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As Emma mentions about the Wellington cave, the poor priest stands all spaced out, interrupting his twisted and confused accounts. His troubled mind tries to remember something. His lips trying to say something,

"The... the Wellington cave...."

and eventually they fail.
Suddenly... something throws his whole body into a state of alarm. His eyes seems to see something scary in the investigators presence...

He screrams:
"Who are you? Why did you come here? What do you want from me...? Go away from here. Leave me alone! Leave me alone!"

He tries to throw everybody out of the church.

"Father Colby! Control yourself! What in God's name has gotten into you man?"

Ivy hopes that her directness will snap the priest out of his strange behaviour.

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But shouting at the man achieves nothing.

"We don't mean anyone any harm," says Kathryn, her voice flowing with innocence. "We'll leave if you insist, but we only want to help."

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As the investigators move a few steps away from him, the priest calms down. He stares at their faces, contamplating their disbelief, still with fear in his eyes. His forehead begins to sweat. He looks around, as if he were not sure about the place he is in. As if his mind had just awakened from a kind of hallucination.

Seconds pass, and the man breathes deeply. The muscles of his face relax. Whatever it was that threatened his mind now seems to vanish, as his breath backs to normality.
He speaks with embarassement, almost wispering... pausing after every single word

"I apologize ..don´t know what's gotten into me... I told you everything I know ... I hope you find the missing kid... now I need to rest and stand alone...
please....."

The man is really lost and confused. The investigators have enought knowledge about psychology to hazard hypothesis. The conversation must have awakened a repressed memory. Something that his mind has experienced and then removed. Only something extremely scary and terrifyring could have led his mind to apply such a process of forgetfulness, as a desperate mean of psychological protection.

"Maybe we can help you," says Kathryn. "It can't be easy trying to deal with everything yourself."

As Father Colby collects himself, Ivy whispers to the others.

"Something abut those caves clearly disturbs him. I think perhaps we should leave the poor guy alone and do some more investigating. I vote we speak to Martin's girlfriend and then head down the docks to talk to the captain. If those caves are as terrible as Father Colby clearly thinks they are, it'd help to arm ourselves with some more information."

I vote we speak to Martin's girlfriend and then head down the docks to talk to the captain

OOC:   Do the others agree?

robertod wrote:

I vote we speak to Martin's girlfriend and then head down the docks to talk to the captain

OOC:   Do the others agree?