Nile Dawk, the Commander of the Military Police, had never been a very loud person. Not even during their very cheerful days of innocent youth back at the Recruit Corps. But not today, all the yelling, shoving and cursing he was making now was loud enough to wake up the entire neighborhood. It seemed the person he had in his charge now was definitely not making it easy for Nile to drag him or her towards the barge.
The charge, on the other hand, appeared to be enjoying every minute of it.
With all the laughs and giggles, it was as if he or she was having the best time of their life. None of Nile's yells or curses had any effect on the person. Neither did they stop him or her from measuring out quick kicks at Nile's shin, or pulling silly tricks on him while he tried to focus on the very tough task of pulling them along.
As they pushed their way past Mike, the person even managed to raise a leg, and give a sharp and hard kick to the bottom of the 'Romeo' on duty for the day while yelling 'getting out of the way, you damn idiot!' in a very high-pitched laughing voice, the voice of a young teenage girl.
'Stop it!' That was the last straw that finally broke the back of the camel. Nile picked up the girl, shoved her up onto his shoulder, rushed the final few steps towards the barge and ran up the rungs of the ladder before angrily dumped her on board.
'Sorry we are late!' in a terribly feigned calm voice, Nile tried to maintain a last drop of dignity before one of his fellow officers of the armed forces of the Kingdom and a friend from his old Recruit Corp days, while tumbling to unlock the handcuff on the girl's wrists.
'Damned girl tried to rob the King's Coroner's Office last night,' shoving the girl who was staring curiously at her newly freed wrists towards Erwin, the Commander of the Military Police continued to explain.
'Was it serious?' Erwin asked in a slightly raised tone, showing that what happened a couple of hours ago at the Coroner's office might have managed to pique his interest.
'Nothing big-we were able to catch her in time and recover all the items she was trying to get away with. But that DAMNED girl did the most stupid thing in the whole universe! She probably believed that by ransacking the place, she could cover up her own miserable tracks! The whole place was a wreck! Tables and chairs thrown into walls, shelves down on the floors, all those expensive equipments, tubes, bottles, and jars were broken into pieces and shattered all over the place. A single rampage of destruction that probably has already cost the Kingdom more than enough to support all our four corps for a year!' Nile shook his head with the expression of absolute frustration.
'Should we wait for further trials?' Erwin paused the hand that was signing the paperwork Nile just handed to him, and asked with a slightly raised brow.
'No. The Director of the Coroner's Office was screaming at General Darius Zackly and begging him to get her 'out of the city, the wall and the whole damned world ASAP' before we left for here.'
Nile snatched the papers out of Erwin's hands right the moment he saw all the signatures were complete. 'Thank God, that DAMNED girl is finally your responsibility now, Erwin!' the Commander of the Military Police shouted over his back to his old Recruit Corp buddy while rushing down the rungs of the ladder leading onto the dock.