Chapter 3The officer scowled at Tai. “Listen, sonny, things are about to get very busy. We don’t have time for games.” He didn’t answer with words, just took his badge out of pocket and showed it to her, making sure the iridescence that would happen only in response to the owner of the badge, was visible. She looked up at him startled. “I want to be placed into custody and taken to the station managers,” Tai said. “I have something very important to tell them.” Five minutes later he was in an interrogation room, though they had been unfailingly polite, and even offered him a cup of tea. He waited for ten minutes, then Lieutenant Gregg, the senior station security officer came in, looking harassed. That was good. He was, as the officer on the desk said, about to be very busy, so he’d pro

