To: Mara Arin

[Ganimed]

*** From: Mara Arin, stationed at Battleship Hood

*** *** [color=#CC6600]To: Clarence Rowe

*** *** *** Affiliation: IMG, Research and Exploration Division, Recruit rank

I'd like to make a quick report on my progress on Mr Degroot. Once I contacted him per your request, he made
ample resistance and acted like he was spending quite some time with Ms Tantalo, rejecting my help outright.
Without your help, I may have never been able to confront him. Whatever you did Mr Rowe, made him come out of
shell just enough, so I can shoot some question at him.

Mr Degroot was very secretive about the whole matter and assured me that whatever happened in his private life
would not in any way affect how he performs his job. I asked him some question about Ms Tantalo and he gave
some suspicious answers leading me to believe he was ready her help her at one point, but she did something which
he didn't specify that changed his opinion. He also failed to answer most other question about her defending himself
with words like "it doesn't matter what she did". Such argument indicates he is hiding something. I continued and
switched the subject to you giving an illusion I'm more interested in his relationship with others then in him alone.
He said you two have different opinions regarding what had happened because you don't know the whole story. He
also added that he isn't going to share the rest with you either and that you may poke around, but you will never
find the truth unless you ask Ms Tantalo personally. I further pressured him to tell me what would happen if she
spoke out about it after which he replied "nothing". From that point onwards it was clear he has no argument as to
why he wouldn't tell me what happened as if we are to trust him words nothing would change and no one would be
affected.

A very similar resistance was found when I confronted Ms Tantalo and I fear Mr Degroot might be going the same
route as she is. Denial.

Remind Mr Degroot that, as a doctor, I have to keep my our about a patients privacy, he just needs to tell me he
doesn't want me to share the information. Many people, including Ms Tantalo and Mr Degroot, forget that I'm
bound by an oath. IF you wish, you may view the converstation log.

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