Holly'd gotten a call the night before from someone from the Council,
well actually it'd been the Councilwoman's secretary, saying to come down
to the Police Plaza at 9:30 sharp. She just barely made it on time.
"Captain Short, I was beginning to think you might not come."
"It's only just 9:30 now."
"Have you been in contact with anyone from LEP in the last 24 hours?"
"No. Why? What's this about, Ma'am?"
"We've been reviewing your file and are unsure as to whether you are fit to continue on with LEP. We've got many other lines of work to suggest."
"What? I love my job. I don't want to change lines of work!"
"As I said we are unsure as to whether you are fit to remain in this line of work."
"Councilwoman Vinyaya, I can lift more weight and run circles around many of the male officers. I can think clearly on my feet. I'm good at improvising on the field. I can get out of tight spots. I'm a great shuttle pilot. I-"
"You need not remind me of all your qualities, I am very aware of them. But you seem to cause a lot of problems."
"Problems?"
"There was of course the Hamburg incident. Then there was the troll in that Italian restaurant. You were kidnapped and cost the citizens a lot of money in ransom gold, may I remind you that is the first time that has ever happened. You took that unauthorized trip to the Artic and went to a shuttle port that was closed down. You lost the Ambassador's son."
Holly drew herself up taller. "I take full responsibility for the Hamburg incident, ma'am. I was invited into the restaurant; a small child was calling for help. Would you have denied a child? Who was suffering? Not if you have a heart. None of us knew that there were Mud Men staked out at the places where we hold the Ritual, waiting to capture one of us. It could have been any fairy, but it happened to be me. And if you remember I got back half that ransom gold. The trip to the Artic was out of necessity, we broke into Koboi Labs and forced our way to the traitor Cudgeon and Opal Koboi with nearly no weapons or communication with the Police Plaza. As for the Ambassador's son, no one was being frank with me and I got shot in the bargain but I did get him back."
"You should have saved your breath. You're not being fired. Thanks to the efforts of Foaly and Lieutenant Colonel Kelp vouching for you, instead you will be resubmitted for training, if you pass the training again, you will be reassigned above the surface at Disneyland."
"Thank you, Councilwoman," she said stiffly.
"Captain Short, I was beginning to think you might not come."
"It's only just 9:30 now."
"Have you been in contact with anyone from LEP in the last 24 hours?"
"No. Why? What's this about, Ma'am?"
"We've been reviewing your file and are unsure as to whether you are fit to continue on with LEP. We've got many other lines of work to suggest."
"What? I love my job. I don't want to change lines of work!"
"As I said we are unsure as to whether you are fit to remain in this line of work."
"Councilwoman Vinyaya, I can lift more weight and run circles around many of the male officers. I can think clearly on my feet. I'm good at improvising on the field. I can get out of tight spots. I'm a great shuttle pilot. I-"
"You need not remind me of all your qualities, I am very aware of them. But you seem to cause a lot of problems."
"Problems?"
"There was of course the Hamburg incident. Then there was the troll in that Italian restaurant. You were kidnapped and cost the citizens a lot of money in ransom gold, may I remind you that is the first time that has ever happened. You took that unauthorized trip to the Artic and went to a shuttle port that was closed down. You lost the Ambassador's son."
Holly drew herself up taller. "I take full responsibility for the Hamburg incident, ma'am. I was invited into the restaurant; a small child was calling for help. Would you have denied a child? Who was suffering? Not if you have a heart. None of us knew that there were Mud Men staked out at the places where we hold the Ritual, waiting to capture one of us. It could have been any fairy, but it happened to be me. And if you remember I got back half that ransom gold. The trip to the Artic was out of necessity, we broke into Koboi Labs and forced our way to the traitor Cudgeon and Opal Koboi with nearly no weapons or communication with the Police Plaza. As for the Ambassador's son, no one was being frank with me and I got shot in the bargain but I did get him back."
"You should have saved your breath. You're not being fired. Thanks to the efforts of Foaly and Lieutenant Colonel Kelp vouching for you, instead you will be resubmitted for training, if you pass the training again, you will be reassigned above the surface at Disneyland."
"Thank you, Councilwoman," she said stiffly.