"Fair enough but you've already had some misadventures while you've been here," she replied as she left her seat on the rock and began walking with him.

"Really?"

"Your reticence to speak on your own behalf aside, others described an altercation with a member of Dream's posse, a man who called himself Night. A man who ended up dead at your feet."

Ben stopped to look at her. She smiled back, an eagerness in her eye.

"You should read the police report to ensure you have an accurate account of what happened before you report on it. You're phrasing seems to describe a homicide when it was just a stupid...