"You know as well as I do that promises won't relax your critics." There was no way that it won't happen again would satisfy the government officials who had turned a wary eye to Klarion. Chilton presently had jurisdiction over the young man for a reason.

"So you were already upset," he said, returning to the crux of their conversation. "And you were trying to get about your day, when this someone kept inserting themselves into your life."

It was an automatically sympathetic retelling of Klarion's account.

"What had gotten you upset? Before this someone even entered the picture?"