CT blinks just, utterly incredulously for a moment, before shaking it off and speaking again. "I... wow. That sounds like him, the attempt at manipulation beneath it all and the trying to act like none of it was his fault, but I've never known him to make such a drastic miscalculation. There were... five, of the others, right? Five voices against one is a weird fight to pick."

Him trying it with just her makes sense, if he couldn't rely on his manipulation to get under the skin of or overrule the word of one of them then he would've been very bad at his job, but that many of them? Including most of the people who knew the most, by the end?

"Sounds rather like he fucked himself." And she'd be lying if she said that isn't kind of satisfying to know.