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[bratworth]

( Each answer only begets more questions. )

I suppose during the course of... whatever investigation we were undertaking, there were enough clues to put it all together.

( A beat. )

I am sorry we could not catch her sooner.

( Then perhaps Kay wouldn't have had to go through all that. )

[kayssistant]

[Oh. Kay shrugs and reaches up to pat Edgeworth's shoulder gently.]

It's okay. What's important is that she got caught eventually. She was in disguise and it was her laugh, and her fingerprints, that gave her away.

[bratworth]

( He really doesn't know what to do with this reassurance. It's not something he's accustomed to receiving. Shaking his head firmly, he reiterates: )

No. She should have been caught sooner.

( Who knew how many more lives she'd been able to ruin in the intervening years? She should have never been allowed to walk free that day he had crossed paths with her in the courthouse. He had been a naive fool, and as usual, it was other people who would have to bear the consequences of his mistakes. He swallows thickly. )

I hated that damn laugh.

( At the end of the day, he'd underestimated her.

He wouldn't underestimate a defense attorney again. )

[kayssistant]

[Maybe she should have been caught sooner, but that was already in the past for Kay. This Edgeworth was still reeling from Calisto's escape, and even if he knew she eventually got caught, it was probably not comforting to know that it would take seven years before that.

To her credit, Kay withdraws her hand from his shoulder and places her hands behind her back. Her lips curve into a slight frown and when she speaks, her tone is suddenly softer and more serious.]

If you hated her laugh, I heard it in my nightmares for months after that incident.

Even seven years later...when she began to laugh again, I felt chills down my spine.

[bratworth]

( For the better or the worse, Edgeworth's nightmares tend to be filled with screaming. )

It would be a difficult laugh to forget.

( Even after seven years, he's sure he would remember it.

For a moment, an oddly pensive look settles on his face. He has a lot to process for now. )

Is there anything else you need to tell me?

[kayssistant]

[Kay's mood improves somewhat, and she gives him a faint but knowing smile.] Depends. What else do you want to know about the future?

[Then she shrugs.]

Or, we can save the rest for later.

[Were she in his position, a sudden taste of the future would be overwhelming for her, too.]

[bratworth]

Nothing in particular, for now. I simply thought I would ask in case there was anything you thought pertinent.

( But clearly that's not the case, so. )

Later will do.