Joshua/The Trial of Joe Black (Deliberations 2)

As the other jurors discussed definitions, Joshua found himself drifting off, thinking about the things they'd seen in the courtroom. Suddenly realizing that he'd spaced out, he shook his head to clear it and made a show of getting up to get some coffee in the hopes that it would make him more alert. /I really need to pay attention to all this./

Sitting back down, he stared into the coffee's unseen depths a moment, then gulped it down regardless of the heat. Slightly surprised, he looked down into the empty cup and stood up to get more. /Should I be saying something?/ All this philosophical talk was beyond him at the moment. Did they even have enough information to pass a verdict on Black?

It would be nice to be able to go in that courtroom and ask them a few questions. But he'd settle for asking the other jurors for now. "Um, we have to find some answer, right? We can't just say 'we don't know' and go home. I don't know if we have enough information to either decide that Black is a soldier or policeman, or that he isn't. And we never really got a satisfactory answer worked up about murder, did we? As far as I can see, we're getting nowhere, and slowly."

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