[Fourteenth Note]: [Accidental Audio]

[ponchotexas]

[the comm clicks on to a clatter and a rather loud swear from Nick, followed by the rustling of papers.]

Nicky Nickyyyy!

[sounding rather annoyed] Cassie, where have you been all day?

... at the hospital with Greggy. ... are you mad at me?

[long pause, then a sigh] No. Just help me pick these up, okay?

Okay! [rustling as they go to pick up

Comments

[vanderfleet]

Eh, there's a time an' a place for everythin'. You're workin' hard to find out what ya need to. You'll get it!

The little one's got a lot o'faith in ya, y'know. Don't disappoint!

[ponchotexas]

... How did I know that was going to turn on.

Doesn't feel like I'm workin' hard enough, if I'm not gettin' closer to an answer.

And the way this case is going is hittin' a little close to home.

[vanderfleet]

D-Comms are funny like that, aren't they?

Eh, like I said, time an' place.

Ah? Close t'home? Y'have somethin' similar happen back in yer world?

[ponchotexas]

They are. Surprised it doesn't do that more, as many times as I've dropped it. ... hey they don't have hip holders for these things do they?

I guess. Still not makin' me feel any better...

Yeah uh...

...

[locked from Greg since he knows he doesn't like talking about it]

Buncha kids got together, started beating up tourists. They'd hit one, stop for a while, move on to another one. One guy they got wasn't a tourist but a local. They beat him so bad he died. One woman and another man are scarred for life from it.

The second guy... my friend tried to stop it from happening. Came across the crime in progress and drove in, trying to break it up. He hit a kid on accident because the kid came after him with a rock. It was self defense, 'course no one besides us really saw it that way.

And... my friend got dragged from his car, and got the hell beat out of him for it.

We found the kids responsible, but that's just it, they were kids. One guy got jail time, everyone else got a slap on the wrist because they were under 18. Way I see it