Justifications!
I am curious, Commander, Asenath said to him the next day. Which was the earliest he could manage to actually run down some of the names on the list Waite had given him. Why is it that you are willing to let Mr. Domaine onto the Lifeboat without him first justifying his murder of Mr. Stuart?
“Fair question,” replied Tobias. “The answer is, he did. He told us that he killed Stuart because Stuart’s body had been taken over by some monster.”
And do you believe him?
“What? No. Absolutely not. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have happened anyway. Lots of things have been happening in the last year that I refuse to believe in.