[That gets him to settle easily. Dist tends to understand him better than anyone else, and if anyone's going to understand "this guy insulted me so I wanted him to die to the point where I stopped being rational" it's going to be Dist. So it's good that Dist was already aware of it, even if that is the sort of thing he should be more embarrassed about admitting to. Oh well. Everyone here knows he's petty and now everyone knows he has a temper to match! Great.]

I wasn't capable of saying it at the moment, but I do appreciate how quickly you jumped to my defense.

[Dist was able to shut Rideaux down from derailing the trial with pointless talk about Iago's mask so that really does mean a lot to him. He's been surprisingly lucky in that only one person has brought it up in any sort of negative way before this trial, but it really was just a matter of time until someone set him off about it.]

I also appreciate that you're willing to attempt to get Rideaux to see reason. He isn't nearly as intelligent as he likes to think he is, but even he wouldn't be stupid enough to kill me right now. Everyone would assume he'd be behind it, after all.

[At least, he sure hopes Rideaux isn't that stupid. Of course, that does open up the possibility of someone trying to frame Rideaux for it...]

Thank you, Dist. I'm... feeling a bit better now. You have my apologies for... [vague handwave] That. All of that. I'm afraid I've been entirely too close to the breaking point for too long now and today finally pushed me over the edge.

[It's kind of embarrassing, really...]