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"This is Iris.  I'm so sorry I missed your call.  As soon as I'm able, I promise to get back to you."

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[shroudedinsecrecy]

[Stand? Yes. Make eye contact? ...not for the next several minutes. Minimum.]

You saved my life.

No other defense attorney would have believed me. But...you did. Enough to risk so much on my behalf.

[prosecutory]

Wright was the first to believe you. In fact...he was the one I saw in your memory.

[Yet again, Edgeworth doesn't notice Iris averting her eyes for most of this conversation. He does bend down to pick up his towel though.]

[shroudedinsecrecy]

He...was?

[It was her turn to wonder what he saw. So distracted by his memory, it had yet to dawn on her to ask.]

[prosecutory]

Yes. I presume this was when he was in college.

[And distracted by his body y/n]

[shroudedinsecrecy]

[There was the smallest of flinches, before she remembered...ah, Edgeworth would have already known about that, wouldn't he? Her deception.]

[And besides...not all of those memories from that time were bad. In fact, some of them...]

Might I ask...what...exactly you saw?

[prosecutory]

You were posing as Dahlia. [At least he's just stating the facts. He doesn't sound like he's judging her.] Wright, of course, didn't know the truth yet, and this was before he was accused of murder, I believe.

[shroudedinsecrecy]

[She knew he wasn't judging. He knew the story. And yet...]

It feels so wrong to say, considering everything, but...that was truly one of the happiest times of my life.

I only wish...I had been honest with him. That I'd told him before Dahlia decided to act on her own.

[prosecutory]

It's too late to change the past, but Wright has already accepted you despite that, has he not?

[Still stating the facts, but Edgeworth is well aware that Phoenix has more than accepted Iris.]

[shroudedinsecrecy]

...he has, yes.

[She wasn't about to argue that. He'd more than accepted her; he'd accepted her back into his life. And heart. More than she could ever have hoped for.]

It's just...still hard. Especially when it feels like this place enjoys having my past come back to haunt me.

[prosecutory]

I understand how you feel. [He nods slowly. Edgeworth is one who doesn't like being reminded constantly of the past.]

It's difficult, but we can only move forward...no matter what happens next in Cerealia.

[shroudedinsecrecy]

What...do you think will happen next?

[There was no way of knowing for certain, of course, but one could speculate.]

[prosecutory]

I don't know. [His voice is steady and grim.] We'll find out soon enough.