Project

The Messages Pt 2 (Questioning Time).

Soon enough, Questioner gave a slight cough to break the impending silence, and decided to carry on his frightful job.

He started off with the main thing the messages talked about, and the thing he was very curious about, "So everything Project said, does it correlate with you all correctly? Or were they on the wrong train? If it was correct, how did he know all this?"

Will shook himself from his thoughts, and began to do his part of the job, "For me,I wouldn't say so, but for the rest... I think it's pretty much spot on. They were quite observant after I taught them how I was able to be observant, even surpassing me at one point. It's just that they then began to see the wrong things and used it to their advantage. We told them a lot about us, and they were then able to create the possible outcomes that would happen with most conversations we had." Though Will looked sincere, Questioner could see what seemed to be a glimmer of a lie within the statement. He was just unsure as to what it may be, and so decided to leave it for now, but reminded himself to tell Writer to cross-reference some of the notes. Questioner went on to  question, and carried on listening carefully, picking out miniscule details, finding hidden secrets and prying answers from any more lies.

"Were they correct with that they said, about the outcomes? Do you think that they knew everything?" Questioner continued to interrogate Will. Will responded with a logical, yet uncertain-sounding answer, "Well, I don't think that anyone could know every possible outcome, especially when it comes to our reactions. Project just knew the risks and basis of how people would react, and unfortunately that scared them enough. This was probably also the reason why we couldn't tell what was up with them as much as we could for anyone else. Plus what would you say to a mute who had secrets? Not to mention secrets that seem to be very weird and confusing. I couldn't think of a way to bring it up, and no one else could either..." But Questioner felt as though that was an exaggeration. Thus this led him to ask, "Are you sure no one else was able to ask them? We need to know." Questioner could tell was hiding something, and they were doing a good job at it. Yet it seemed as though Will was purposely trying to slip-up, trailing off, and zoning out, none of the usual symptoms for a liar. He still kept eye-contact, still spoke each sentence with clarity, and sounded certain with every statement, but it seemed as though Will's mind was yelling to Questioner, shouting for him to dig deeper. Will began to speak, further proving Questioner's intuition, "I... I shouldn't say. It's not what I'm meant to say."

"What do you mean? We need to know every piece of information you have." Writer stated, getting agitated with Will's choice of words. Will stuttered, "It's not my place to, you know, tell you everything I know. More so that I can't, so to say." Will then glanced out to the front door again, as he had done at the beginning of their discussion. Questioner then knew what he meant. "You've been told to hide information by this 'P' person, correct?" Will only silently nodded, being sure that no one could hear him. "May I ask why?" Questioner asked, but Will could only say, "We each have to play by the rules. Spencer did, you both are, and now I must." This just led to more questions in general, but Questioner had to focus on the Mystery at hand, not the side-lines. "Okay, I'll stick with what I need to do, which I presume is to ask about the messages?"

"I dunno, I was only given my rules, you were given yours, right?" Will asked, yet Questioner looked at him more confused than ever. "I was just randomly picked for this, I was told by my friends that since I have above average intuition and deduction skills, I should try to solve the 'Impossible Mystery'." But Will just once again smiled, "Random chance? I wouldn't put my chips on that. But by the looks of it you were truthful when you said that, so I'll go on a hunch and say that the messages should be the main task at hand." Questioner nodded, and decided to go back to the 'main topic' to Writer's dismay.

"So where were we?" Questioner pondered, quickly getting back on track instead of *derailing the story* asking any side questions –though he was hoping to get back to that soon. He then remembered what his next question was going to be, "The people mentioned here, do you think they would know anything? Should we think about visiting them sometime soon?" Will thought about it for a second, "If I remember correctly, each of us has a piece of information about Project, a statement, some messages, even pictures or drawings! We never thought about bringing this together, as we didn't know at first that they had told each of us one separate thing. I think it's your job to put it all together. So I believe that you should visit at least the main people mentioned first."