Christy's - Fine Tea and Delicious Pastries

[Garrett Jax]

The former LPI officer, Rex Easly, sauntered through the doors of Christy's establishment unaffected by the chaos that lay before him. As he crossed the cafe, he waded through a group of constables, stepped over a fallen Kusari girl and walked over to the counter waiting for someone to take his order.

Once before, months ago, he visited this place. He tried to fashion a donut out of a crumpet, with little success and so had little reason to return. Sunbucks had the best donuts, the best coffee, and, as he looked at the squabble behind him, the best fights as well. With fondness, he recalled the brick throwing chief barking orders at some lowly recruit. He remembered the tazer battles that officers would inflict on one another. And all the...he sighed. That was all in the past. This was his life now. He looked at the display of pastries. A life of tea and crumpets.

At the counter beside him, sat a smirking officer looking quite satisfied with himself. Rex overheard Christy shouting to someone in her employ to get some towels and noticed that this officer wasn't paying a bit of attention to all the hubbub behind him. It didn't take him too long to realize that this particular officer was the cause of all this ruckus.

Rex leaned toward the officer. "Hey", he greeted. "My name's Rex." He offered his hand.

The man looked Rex up and down for the briefest of seconds, appeared to take stock of him, and then shruged. "Justin," he replied.

"Can't believe they let Kusari folk in this place. Don't they have standards?" Rex waited to see if his suspicions about this man were correct.

Justin's eyes lit up at the mention of the Kusari girl. "Don't even get me started with that," he spat. "They should have locked her away with the rest of that Kusari filth."

Rex looked closely at the girl, still lying on the floor. This 'Kusari filth' was an Inspector in the BPA judging from her uniform insignia. The girl was clutching some electronic palm device, speaking to it at times. Rex couldn't tell how much pain she was in, if any, but the thought that a fellow officer would bring harm to a young girl appalled him more than he thought possible.

Reaching down at his belt, he started for his LPI issued tazer, but then had second thoughts. He turned back toward Justin. "Well, it looks like I'm not going to get any service here, so I'm leaving."

Justin grunted a reply as Rex turned back toward the group surrounding the young Kusari girl. He intercepted the employee that was bringing back the towels that Christy had demanded and took them from him. Seeing the alarm in the young man's face, he gestured that everything would be alright. He grabbed his tazer, put the setting on Medium Crispy, wrapped it up in the towels and placed it next to the frightened young Kusari Inspector.

"Here you go, Ma'am." Rex winked at the girl. "I'm sure you know what to do with this." Rex turned and walked immediately out the door, never happier.

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