A face: pale, white-haired, pale-eyed, resolute. Himself.
For a scant moment it looked far too vulnerable. Lih took up his officer’s cap and turned it into place. What stared back at him was a great deal more reassuring: a cop…
Lih, smiling as ever, headed for their table and asked a waitress who looked familiar to bring him a black coffee. Dorian was waiting for him. He relayed clear, simple instructions as to where to meet up. Lih listened carefully, and then made ready to move.
“Hello, sir!” he called, dropping into the seat beside Dorian.
Lih took a drink from the coffee the waitress offered him before adding, “maybe finally I can do something useful.”
Now please advise me of our situation. He added, suddenly serious.
He didn’t expect much. Truth is he thought he’d been given a secondary role since Boda died. Parted from Dorian briefly, Lih found himself in a confused situation where enemies that had moved with frightening speed, leapt out of the shadows in a frenzied combat that lasted a short time, but which Lih would remember the rest of his life.
Captain’s orders. He had failed. He would pay. He… felt as much. Even as Dorian had him running around, heeding his every order. From the evidence as the reports present to him, Lih’d hazard outside the office was a much better place to start looking.
For a scant moment it looked far too vulnerable. Lih took up his officer’s cap and turned it into place. What stared back at him was a great deal more reassuring: a cop…
Lih, smiling as ever, headed for their table and asked a waitress who looked familiar to bring him a black coffee. Dorian was waiting for him. He relayed clear, simple instructions as to where to meet up. Lih listened carefully, and then made ready to move.
“Hello, sir!” he called, dropping into the seat beside Dorian.
Lih took a drink from the coffee the waitress offered him before adding, “maybe finally I can do something useful.”
Now please advise me of our situation. He added, suddenly serious.
He didn’t expect much. Truth is he thought he’d been given a secondary role since Boda died. Parted from Dorian briefly, Lih found himself in a confused situation where enemies that had moved with frightening speed, leapt out of the shadows in a frenzied combat that lasted a short time, but which Lih would remember the rest of his life.
Captain’s orders. He had failed. He would pay. He… felt as much. Even as Dorian had him running around, heeding his every order. From the evidence as the reports present to him, Lih’d hazard outside the office was a much better place to start looking.
Viktor Lih
Officer of CCDPD
Officer of CCDPD