Stella asked quietly.Robert took his eyes away from Ross’s plump face.“Now? Now everything ’s up in the air.”How true, Stella thought. How true.Now everything was indeed up in the air. Everything was unknown. Well, almost everything. Certain things were known and clear.For starters, it was clear that their entire thorough plan of finding and exposing the mysterious villain had almost gone down the drain thanks to Michael and his hard questions. The plan was built on the assumption that this very topic would be discussed at the end, on Friday. Discussing it then, after the dreaded voting, made perfect sense. The entire discussion was expected to lead smoothly to a rigid non-negotiable ultimatum. Today , the same discussion was completely premature and couldn ’t lead to anything good. And it didn ’t.At first, Chris rambled and mumbled for a minute or so, while Michael kept questioning him with the persistence and skillfulness of a professional interrogator. It didn ’t take long for Chris to cave in.As it turned out, he had quite a few interesting things to share with his fellow contestants, who by that point were all ears.
