((If you can find a way to work it in while still glossing over, go for it. It's mostly the whole questioning part and the testimony that's stressing me out. Same thing happened to me when we did a mock-trial in street law this one time in high school. I froze up.))
Cipher Nine argues that a lack of intent to escape should at least mitigate a sentence. And when Demeter points out that they don't have any proof that Persephone was the one who placed the flower there, he decides to go for the next best thing, and to call Persephone herself and ask her if she placed it there, knowing that Hades will be able to tell if she's lying. If she says no and she's being truthful, though... he's already planning contingencies, additional lines of questioning: did she get someone to do it for her? If not, can she name anyone else who would be able to? He's also internally processing other possible people who could have done it, preparing himself for possible answers.
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Cipher Nine argues that a lack of intent to escape should at least mitigate a sentence. And when Demeter points out that they don't have any proof that Persephone was the one who placed the flower there, he decides to go for the next best thing, and to call Persephone herself and ask her if she placed it there, knowing that Hades will be able to tell if she's lying. If she says no and she's being truthful, though... he's already planning contingencies, additional lines of questioning: did she get someone to do it for her? If not, can she name anyone else who would be able to? He's also internally processing other possible people who could have done it, preparing himself for possible answers.