I never thought that he really meant to punish us. We were thinking he was just bluffing to tighten our leash. But we are here now at the discipline office listening to his endless litany about us going out of bounds. He was pacing back and forth giving us an earful for a piece of story we managed to submit ahead of time and even exceeding the ten thousand word count limit.
"I did warn you on this but what did you do? You were lounging around at the perimeter of an active case. Not even bothering to secure your identities. You might as well wore name plates. Did you know you were sitting ducks waiting to be shot at?" This time he sits down slamming both fists on a glass table that even made cups of coffee wobble a little.
While I curled my hands into a ball trying to hold down the ange
