[He could be lying to her, of course. She always assumes strangers are lying, because it's safer for her that way.

But these are fairly low risk lies. They'll be exposed the moment Abel is up again, if he's interested in doing so - she's not sure. She doesn't know him either.]

If it were up to me, under the circumstances, Malcolm would be in the cell beside you until Abel had a chance to wake up and tell us what happened.

But I don't have any authority here. I can't even ask questions and expect answers.