She grabbed her camera and shot out of the room.
One of the men broke from the group and came into the witness room
saying loudly, "Who are you and what are you doing in here?
This room is reserved."
"We were told this was a witness room and we are witnesses,"
said Roz, flatly. "Who are you?"
Glaring at Roz and throwing his entire body into an intimidating pose,
the man said angrily, "I am the Academic Vice President, Henry Tarbuck,
and I reserved this room for the university witnesses."
"That's OK then," said Roz cheerfully and completely
unimpressed. "We are university witnesses.
Diana stepped forward. "Is there a problem?"
"Oh, it's you. You were supposed to go to a room upstairs."
"We asked and we were directed here," interjected Roz.
Smiling up at Henry innocently, she continued in a child's
sing-song voice, "finders, keepers."
"Well. We'll see about that," was the disgruntled, graceless retort.
As he turned to leave Trenchant stopped him. "I have requested
an open hearing which you have denied me. I again ask that
the hearing be open."
"No, absolutely not. The hearing is closed.
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