A Book Without Dragons by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

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I entered my Officer ID, fully expecting to be denied access to the database, but unexpectedly, my clearance level was accepted. Then I realized that this was most likely a Unitime mistake, and there was no telling how long the error would persist.

I began searching for reports cataloging the items Willow registered when the Unitime Facility moved three years ago. The move took place shortly after the photo shoot Quinton had done for Science Weekly. That green box Willow had tried so hard to keep a secret should have been on this registry, but—as I suspected—nothing quite fit that description.

So, this wasn’t just a secret Willow was withholding from the general public: he didn’t want his superiors to know about that machine either.

There was a hesitant knock at my office door. Not now, I pleaded to whichever deity was the least swamped. If I stopped to listen to one more person chatter about Unitime to me, I might lose my only chance to examine this information. Please, not now. Let them find someone else.

It seemed the deity I was praying to couldn’t be bothered. The door opened and a young woman let herself into my office. “Are you Chief Snowiks?”

“Yes,” I said. I vaguely recognized her face, but not enough to know exactly who she was. She certainly wasn’t a member of Chagrin Heights prone to making trouble. “How can I help you?”

“I… well… I’m not very good at this. I really don’t know…” she sighed, and I gave up any hopes of this being a speedily concluded conversation.

“What’s your name?” I asked, pulling out a notepad. I didn’t have time for this. I was finally working on a case that mattered.

“Zabby Reynolds,” she said.

The name sounded familiar, but my retirement-ready brain couldn’t figure out why. “Are you experiencing some sort of problem?”

“No! No, I’m not. That’s just it.” Her chin drooped until she was having the conversation with my trashcan. “There’s been a mistake. Someone called you guys saying that I was being abused, so an officer visited my house last night… Really, it’s not what it looked like. I slipped in the shower earlier, and that’s why my face was all red. And my dad and I were arguing about something, but it wasn’t serious, but Officer Grayson thought he’d been hitting me, so he arrested my father. Anyway, I’d like to…” she squirmed as she attempted to find the correct legal jargon, “…drop the charges? Or whatever. It was really just a mistake. Everything’s fine.”

Reynolds. I remembered her now. Grayson brought Felix Reynolds in on domestic violence charges after witnessing evidence of an altercation. I pulled up the report on my computer. “What did you say your name was?”

“Zabby. Well, Elizabeth, I guess.”

There it was. I knew her now. “Yes. Elizabeth. It’s good you came in. I was actually going to contact you for a statement today.” I remembered in a flood the list of things I’d been putting off as I researched Willow. I hadn’t even begun trying to get a jury together for the trial.

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