“The badge came off. The consequences did not.”
Chapter 124: The Era Ended Without A Ceremony
Flashback
After so many close calls, so many moments where the ground should have given way beneath her feet, Alyssa understood something she had been circling for months and refusing to name.
It had been there in the pauses between gunfire after the taking down of Pablo Lucchese; the last remaining headache in their path... in the quiet seconds after lies were told and accepted. In the way her hand sometimes hovered just a fraction too long over her badge, as if asking permission to keep wearing it, as the badge mocked her morality with its harmless existence.
She was no longer in a position to make judgment calls with a badge. She incriminated herself so many times, she has become a martyr-
