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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 2731832" data-attributes="member: 19990">Oirhandir considered that perhaps he'd been handling Lasair the wrong way.  Up until this point, he'd thought of her as a bright, if ignorant ally.  Because of her intelligence, he had felt that she could simply be trusted to do the right thing in most situations, without much supervision.  But seeing her more concerned with animals than with people, then calling him childish when he chided her for it shook his faith in her judgement.  Perhaps despite her intellect she was better treated like one such as Fang, unaware of the nuances of a complex situation and best directed with short simple phrases.  He thought of her blundering with the mayor and tried to drive it from his mind; it wasn't relevant to the current situation and only reminded him of how stubbornly wrong she could be at times."Well", thought the elf, "they might both be right about the whole town being in on the mystery, or they might both be wrong, but at least he has her mind on the situation at hand instead of the motivations of wild beasts."  "Right under your nose and in your hand as well", he said as he pointed the the cloth in Troi's hand.  "You'll find my scent and Scarlet's on it; tell us if you recognize a third."  "Now that", he thought, "that will tell us if our biggest problem is a couple of bandits striking at random, or something more sinister."</blockquote>