Rico will do some snooping of his own, undoubtedly. If Beeny wants to keep Rico in the dark, she'd better shore up on her defences.
"Not flexible enough for your tastes?" he asks, the words sitting strange and bewildering on his tongue. He steps forward as if drawn to her words, impossible to stop even if he'd wanted to. "You think something about the Justice Department has to be changed?"
What the drokk. He hones in on her simple sentence, and it's impossible not to. It's the first time he's ever heard so much as an admission from another Judge that the system might not be perfect. Necessary to keep order in a city of chaos, too blind to know that it was already beyond that point. He'd never so much as known if he was the only one who thought it, too dangerous to bring up to anybody. Does she see the same thing he does? Recognise the same sick joke that it is?
No. Of course she doesn't. Better not get ahead of himself. But it keeps him hovering all the same, anticipating her words with a tingle in his fingertips but trying not to show it.
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"Not flexible enough for your tastes?" he asks, the words sitting strange and bewildering on his tongue. He steps forward as if drawn to her words, impossible to stop even if he'd wanted to. "You think something about the Justice Department has to be changed?"
What the drokk. He hones in on her simple sentence, and it's impossible not to. It's the first time he's ever heard so much as an admission from another Judge that the system might not be perfect. Necessary to keep order in a city of chaos, too blind to know that it was already beyond that point. He'd never so much as known if he was the only one who thought it, too dangerous to bring up to anybody. Does she see the same thing he does? Recognise the same sick joke that it is?
No. Of course she doesn't. Better not get ahead of himself. But it keeps him hovering all the same, anticipating her words with a tingle in his fingertips but trying not to show it.