The old creature’s hand entered inside his jacket and brought out a very old vape. “Those two troubles are going to knock a lot of walls before they get to their cell. A lot of walls.”
Two flats elbowed their way through the outside crowd and into the diner. They looked down at the gray haired man silently and then one of them went out to the squad drone.
I tried to pick up my cup of black from the counter but my fingers didn’t obey and I was spilling so much o it that I set it back again. Instead I pulled my vape and took a deep drag.
A couple of minutes later more flat drones arrived and in the end two more serious flats entered the in. They took me to one of the booths.
“I’m Officer Sr’ydd,” one of the flats said. He was as tall as I am and deep purple. The combination of his very erect antennas and the fact that he was much thinner than me in the end made him look taller. He cocked a thumb at the other flat. “And this is my partner, Officer Skyyyzd. Your name, please.”
“Mug,” I said. “Princess Quad Mug.” I added shyly.
“Address?” I gave them the one in Typhon III. As he wrote it down, I added “I’m here for my birthday. Shopping and all that. I have a ship to catch at ten.”
“Miss Princess,” Officer Sr’ydd said looking up. “A flat’s been killed. Your ship can wait.”
“Tell us about it,” Officer Skyyyzd said. “From the beginning.”
I gave the story and described the two troubles.
“You recognize any of them if you saw them again?” Officer Sr’ydd asked.
I hesitated. “Well I don’t know. You understand I was pretty scared….” I left my sentence intentionally unfinished and I tried to look scared.
“You gave a pretty good description of the events, Princess,” Officer Sr’ydd said. “I bet you will.” He got up. “You and grandpa here, better come down to the headquarters with us. We’d like to have you look at some holograms.
Panic was boiling inside but I was keeping it under control. Or at least I thought so.
At headquarters they took old creature and me into a small room and began uploading holograms of troubles.
“Put your bag in the corner if it bothers you,” Officer Sr’ydd said.
“It doesn’t bother me a bit,” I aid irritably.
After two earth hours my liquid had gone and Officer Skyyyzd loaded more holograms. I was pulling off the red strip when the next hologram appeared to be the tall kid who did the killing. I vaped nothing slowly and I thought it over.
Finally I looked up. “This is one of them,” I said.
Officer Sr’ydd go to his feet and came over. He studded the hologram and scrolled the record that came with it. “All right,” he said. He send the hologram to the other corner where the old creature was sitting and moved over.
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