The Cave [Feburary 17, 1964, 10:30 pm - continued from Night Search for Corpus 2]

[capt-kasya.livejournal.com]

They were still for a moment, in the wake of Major Liadov's query.

Then everyone looked at Imanov.

Isaev had told Kassian that Imanov had gone to a university and studied psychology. That made him the obvious choice in Kassian's book. Kassian hadn't even completed his secondary education before he'd have to leave in order to work at the factory.

Kassian wondered if there was anything in Imanov's psychology books that talked about this, murders committed out of some deep-seated need, fueled by this cycle of escalation that Liadov had talked about.

Probably. It sounded like it happened often enough that experts had coined terms for it, after all, some deeper explanation than merely knowing the difference between having to kill, and wanting to kill.

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[ilya-imanov.livejournal.com]

Ilya noticed he was being looked at expectantly.

"I'll do it," he offered, albeit he was reluctant.

He hadn't particularly wanted to draw attention to himself at that moment in time. Particularly not to that man. Liadov.

He wanted nothing to do with Andrei's past, and he was a walking reminder.

He felt he ought to justify the looks he was getting. "It was part of my previous work. I can do it."

Short, sweet, simple.