Curious. How very… curious…
"…When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth…" [1]
Carmen Composéd had of course read about Shirtless Holmés, the legendary supersleuth, who had solved countless cases due to his exceptional ability to perceive the truth - and all whilst wearing his trademark trenchcoat, deerstalker hat, smoking a pipe, occasionally playing violin, and above all, adamantly never wearing a shirt - since he felt that it - as usual literally - 'cramped his style'…
[1] Original quote is spoken by Sherlock Holmes to Dr. John Watson in the Sign of Four (1890) - a famous novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ✨
Combined with Carmen taking her teacher's lessons about the importance of weighing up the evidence and thinking for yourself to heart, this had absolutely given her a headstart, in terms of being able to arrive closer and closer to the 'Truth' of a particular situation, so long as it was within humanly-possible calculation…