Then, cuz the goons she'd been fighting were known dealers in the drug Oblivion, they'd taken her back for questioning too.

"So, what were you doing in that alley with a bunch of thugs?"

Shadow didn't answer.

The man glared at her.

Shadow just stared insolently back.

The man was beginning to lose his patience. "Answer me"

Shadow didn't.

The man stood up.

Okay, he was going to try intimidation.

"Tell me, or I'll toss you in a jail cell this minute!"

"I haven't done anything wrong, so you can't legally put me away."

The man's face was getting as red as a ripe tomato. I was challenging him, he knew it, and he didn't like it.

"Is that so? WOOD! DARBY! ESCORT THIS LADY TO A CELL!"

Two hulking wizards stepped up and pulled her effortlessly from her chair.

Shadow thought it would be a good time to run.

She conjured a thin piece of wood and brandished it like a wand. It wouldn't do for the Enforcers to find out she could do wandless magic.

Waving the "wand" about, she shoved Wood and Darby aside with a spell and ran out of the interrogation chamber. Red lights flashed, sirens wailed and she found herself unable to take a step forward.

Shit, busted.

TBC...