You'd go after their friends? Close acquaintances? [A beat.] Their loved ones? Perhaps give those individuals a reason to leave your former confidant?

[He asked with the consistent tone of someone mildly intrigued and amused by these possibilities, someone who was more invested in the ideas than the personal implications. In truth, Chilton's razor focus was on Dorian. The possibilities only mattered in this case as they related to the probability of Dorian's behavior.

Chilton was scripting a guideline.]