“Fair enough.” Reuben flipped the tiny knife in the air, then chuckled and tucked it into his pocket. “It’ll serve me well if I have to kill a ferocious cockroach.”
Mac’s lips twitched into a smirk. “You never can tell…some of those cockroaches can be pretty vicious!”
“Especially when they wear suits and call themselves administrators.” Mariah grinned. “Or politicians.”
“Don’t even get me started,” Reuben retorted with a mocking grin.
“Now while they’re busy,” he added, tossing a thumb in his wife’s direction, “I’ve a mind to check out those big trees over there. Definitely some kind of fruit in the upper branches. We might get lucky and find some edible windfalls on the ground.”
The agents wandered over with him, and marveled at the broad branches spreading over their heads.
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