Chapter 22 - Officer Dana Reeve
I visited them once after the case ended.
Not officially.
Lila had drawn me a picture.
Apparently I was purple.
Kowalski was green.
Caleb was enormous.
Adrian was absent.
Good.
Lila handed me the drawing.
“You caught me.”
I smiled.
“At the floor.”
“Yes.”
“You were fast.”
“You were faster.”
She thought.
Then:
“I told everybody.”
“I know.”
“They no listen.”
That required care.
“Sometimes grown-ups need more information before they understand something strange.”
She frowned.
“I knew.”
“Yes.”
“You should listen kids.”
“Yes.”
Then I added:
May you like
“And grown-ups still have to check.”
She accepted that because four-year-olds enjoy telling police how to do police work.
