Private Finished Interview at School

The school hall was just about cleared with only a few passing students still around with the school day now ended, it was a relief for many to go home and be with their family. There was an annoucement for a teacher to go to the office to pick something up, but in the end it was just noise the same as the claps of footsteps down the hall.

Nick Miller had arrived and entered the school to talk with the aunt of Zoraida, a woman know to him as Celeste Forestier, to find out what she could possibly know. It was likely she knew nothing but her supposive close relationship with Zoraida might have meant that she was privy to information that would be useful to him.

He wore his normal black suit and tie as he always did.

Turning into the home economics classroom, he looked around to see if Celeste was around and if not he would have to find her at her home. While he waited, he fixed his glasses and beard to look more presentable.

@Zora

Oh.

Nick finally looked over to see see a white haired woman doing stock of her kitchen supplies, she was quiet so he didn't notice right away. Stepping over to the kitchen countertop, he ran his finger across it and drew a line through some flour that was spilled but not cleaned up. How wasteful were the children, even with powers they were quite the same as the kids outside the island, the normal ones.

"Excuse me, you wouldn't happen to be Celeste Forestier would you?" he asked but he was pretty sure he was right. "I'm here to help clean up--" he paused for just a moment and chuckled lightly. "--actually that was a lie, I'm Police Detective Nick Miller and I would like to have a word with you."

@Zora

As soon as the shopping list hit the counter, Nick had already snatched it up and had looked at it. "Oh, ingredients for cooking, when I was younger I used to try to cook a lot of different foods to try to impress the ladies. Don't do much cooking anymore though," he spoke nostalgically before putting the shopping list back down where it was, weird to think about things from thirty plus years ago - before he had any grey hair and was clean shaven.

Nick glanced around the classroom to make sure no one else was around, then checked for cameras as there was always cameras around but didn't see any in the classroom except in the hallway. "What I would like to talk to you about is your niece, Zoraida Del Bosque," he pulled out a notepad and flipped through a few pages to look at what he had written about the subject. He would take this interview lightly due to him not really having a set reason to interview her. "Have you noticed any changes with your nieces behavior lately, new people around?"

@Zora

Nick had known about Zoraida's personal security, but what he really wanted to know about is if she had seen the man in red with her. The brazen attack with just the two of them was such a surprise, Daph wanted to attack them immediately but he managed to hold her off with the suggestion that they play it smart and get the pieces in place first. 'That Daph would have me kill Zoraida, her security team, the man in red, and maybe even Celeste if I caught her on a bad day,' he thought to himself but maintained a light smile on his face throughout.

"You see, your niece was spotted at the warehouses a week ago with a man in red, the rumors say that she attacked that place with him. Have you perhaps seen this man in red, he is very dangerous you see, hurt a lot of people but luckily no fatalities." he explained things while ommiting the Black Wings from his dialogue for now.

@Zora

"I assure you that it was her, maybe with one of her security people or bodyguard, but I'm quite sure," he explained the truth, he had actually no information on Ain Augusta, not even a name.

As he spoke his glasses had fallen down his nose, he adjusted them up and looked down on Celeste from a distance behind the countertop. He wondered if it was actually a mistake to expect something from Celeste Forestier, but he pushed on. "We have no pictures, names, or even camera footage of the man in red, he is a complete mystery to me," he explained. "Just witnesses saying he was wearing a red cloak and a red helmet as well, they couldn't really tell any other details because he was apparently too quick to get a clear look at."

Nick scratched at his beard before continuing, remembering a detail that didn't work on Zoraida but he would try it again in case she was lying. "The man in red was injured after attacking with your niece, would likely have needed medical attention or so I was told. Yet, no record of a man of his description doing so."

@Zora