Friday, April 15, 2016

Tormented: Day 11

Word Count: 66,020

Summary of Events:
Riel was called upon by a young reporter regarding the fact that he was taking the Mar del Plata police department to court. Esperanza, based on what she'd been hearing, decided to test and see if the barbed wire on the wall around the yard was electrified — and found that it was very much so — before hearing screams and discovering that Athena had taken her life by drowning. Riel got a call from Roberto, telling him the Commissioner wasn't impressed with what Riel had said in his interview; Mr. Prieto, the senior partner in the firm who didn't like him, then came in and had a rather heated discussion with him. Zeus came to visit again and Esperanza informed him that Athena was dead, while he informed her he was planning a party, which caused her to think of a new idea for escape.

Excerpt of the Day:
""You are one man, and you are taking on an entire police department and their legal team," Mr. Prieto said. "Such odds are inconceivable, and you're fool enough to think you might succeed?"
"I am," Riel replied.
"You are an absolutely brazen fool," Mr. Prieto said. "Thinking one man — albeit with enough money to stand equal — will be able to face an entire police department, and come out alive, much less win?"
"I am not fool enough to believe I will win, I know not all their arguments and explanations," Riel replied. "But I fully intend to come out alive, and to show the sort of man that I am, championing the rights of those who haven't the clout in our society to champion their own."
"Sir Gabriel of the Fool's Gauntlet," Mr. Prieto muttered.
Riel rolled his eyes. "This is Argentina, we don't have knights."
"Fine, General Gabriel of the Fool's Order," Mr. Prieto muttered. "The noble hero and patriot to be written into the annals of Argentinian history as a mockery and disgrace to all."
"I do believe it is that you underestimate me, Mr. Prieto," Riel said.
"And yet I'm quite certain that you overestimate yourself," Mr. Prieto said. "Rich though you may be, and well versed in the Spanish language to the point of insufferable eloquence and wit, it takes much more than that to succeed. You've not faced a test such as this in the courtroom before, and I do not believe you are capable of it."
"I do not see why I shouldn't be capable of it," Riel replied. "I took three gruelling degrees consecutively and graduated ahead of schedule cum laude, and I am even now pursuing my doctorate of law."
"Concurrently with your doctorate of insanity, I'm sure," Mr. Prieto said dryly.
"I do believe I shall succeed in proving to you that I am a more capable lawyer than you give me credit for," Riel replied. "In fact, in the course of this I have a feeling I'm probably going to end up cementing my name in the public knowledge of Argentina."
"As an absolute fool, for all your knowledge," Mr. Prieto muttered.
"So you think," Riel snapped.
"I've been in the law practise for longer than you've been alive," Mr. Prieto said firmly, resting his hands on Riel's desk and leaning down with an icy stare. "I know how this works, I know how difficult it is, how tasking, and I am quite certain that you are not ready for this, though you so insolently think that you are. Not to mention I think it is utterly foolhardy to try and take a police department to task on a handful of allegations."
"They are suspicions, not allegations, but more importantly is the compromise of rights," Riel replied. "And on top of that the integrity of our nation among those whose company it seeks to be allied with.""

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