Chapter four: Arrested

Kid blink let go of Maurice and let him fall to the ground, cradling his broken arm. Blink walked over to Georgia and knelt down beside her. "You okay?" he said. She nodded slightly. "Sorry about the, uh, fight" he said, tilting his head towards Maurice. Georgia looked over at him and, seeing his arm sticking out at an unearthly angle, fainted.

"You boy! What have you done?" came the voice of the bartender, who had heard Maurice's scream and came to investigate. Seeing Maurice cradling his poor excuse for an arm, and blink knelt next to fainted Georgia, he said, "Let me take a guess. Maurice here was hittin' on the goil, you heard her screamin' and ya came to see what was wrong. Maurice put up a fight and ya broke his arm. Seeing his arm, the goil fainted." Blink nodded slowly. "Yeah, that's pretty much it" The bartender shook his head. "I can't believe you kids! I'm gonna hafta call the cops." he said. Blink jumped up and began to protest. "Sorry kid, but breakin' someone's arm is almost as bad as attackin' a lady. I'll see what the warden has ta say. And you stay heah! And don't get the goil ta wake up, Maurice is worth somethin to the police and I want it ta seem as bad as possible, I get more money dat way." the bartender said, and he left the room. Blink dropped to the ground again and moaned.

Five minutes later, non other than Warden Snyder walks in with the Bartender at his side. Seeing blink, a small smile grows on his face. Snyder had just recently gotten out of jail and had been reassigned as warden of the house of Refuge. "well, well, well. I see we meet again Thomas Banes." Warden Snyder said, his smile growing bigger. "r. Jackson, the bartender, has just told me the whole thing. And Mr. Jackson, thank you so much! You not only turned in the leader of a gang, but you turned in an escapee." The bartender's smile widened. Snyder walked over to Maurice first and cuffed his un broken arm, Maurice barely putting up a struggle but glaring dangerously at blink. Snyder dropped a few coins in Mr. Jackson's hand. "Wake up the girl and tell her to go back home" he said. Mr. Jackson went over in the corner and began to try and wake up Georgia. Snyder then walked over to blink, dragging Maurice behind, and cuffed him. "I've been wanting to see you back in the refuge Thomas," he whispered in blinks ear. Blink knew it was no use to struggle, Snyder always caught up with him somehow. Snyder yanked at the two boys, pulled them out of the pub, threw them in the back of the jail wagon, and slammed the door.