chris kyle is the cleverest man within 20 kingdoms (sharpcharm) wrote in bellumlogs,
Chris eyes skimmed over the words of the riddle for the third time in so many minutes, the pulse of adrenaline he'd felt the first time 'find a name that suits him true' had jumped out at him not entirely faded. Well, fuck. There was no way he was telling any of these people his real name, that was for sure. When Joss asked who the murderer was for a well thought out moment Chris considered claiming that part of the riddle as his own, and then shedding this alias and leaving New York as soon as he was out of this room. But even banking on the unlikelihood that the real culprit would stand up and debunk the claim, there was always the problem that it would do him no good and he'd end up drawing suspicious attention to himself by preferring to be thought a murderer rather than owning up to his true name.
So. "I changed my name a while ago," Chris confessed, re-writing the history of Christopher Kyle, born and raised in Illinois with a careless shrug. "So looks like I'm the rogue." This, with a charming smile that had a distinctly rogueish slant to the only woman in the room, and a question of a somewhat similar calibre. "It'll be an awful waste for my eyes, but do you want to borrow my jacket?" Despite it being midnight when all of them had been taken, Chris hadn't yet been asleep and was still wearing the handsomely tailored suit he'd worn that day to work.