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#45 :Coffee, Donuts and Strategy
The next morning Captain, Marc and Kamiko Akiyama, their boss, were in her office chatting a bit before the two men began their duty day.
“I hear there was a bit of excitement last night” Kamiko remarked as she daintily nibbled on her one and only danish of the day.
“Yup.” Captain replied “Another home invasion burglary. Seems a lot of the criminal types on the mainland think Flint Island is up for grabs. The poor fools tried to rob Gary and Sarah.”
“Oh my.” Kamiko looked at Captain curiously. “Did any of the burglars live?”
“Nope not a one. Gary blew ‘em away with his twelve gauge.” Captain told her as he was licking sugar off his fingers. Damn those sugar donuts were messy.
“Except for the ones that Sarah took apart like butchering hawgs, with that big old butcher knife.” Marc said. “Too bad the poor guys bled to death before we could help them.”
“I see” Kamiko said. “That pretty much agrees with what Sarah told me. We had a nice long chat.”
Uh Oh...Marc looked at Captain who returned the look guiltily. That couldn’t be good.
“She said you did your best to save the poor man.” Kamiko shook her head in sorrow. “but the wound was just too deep. Sarah said she’d spent too much time as a young girl....butchering hogs.”
There might have been a very, very slight grin on Kamiko’s face.
“Do they really call me the Dragon Lady?” she asked
“Um...” Captain said.
“Ah...” Captain replied.
“I kind of like it.” Kamiko replied “It fits right into my plan.”
“ Didn’t you say that there had been a number of home invasions?” she asked Captain.
“Uh...yes Ma’am, there has been.” Captain replied. What DID she have in mind. Why was Marc Grinning?
“That needs to stop. “ Kamiko told them “the residents are having way too much fun. That isn’t the problem. The problem is the state. One day they poor fools will wake up and notice that Flint Island has been a roach motel for crooks”
“They check in...” Marc said
“...but they don’t check out” Captain agreed.
“Exactly” Kamiko agreed “then the politicians would think that they’d have to protect the criminals, and who knows what they’d do.”
Marc and Captain nodded. That had occurred to them too.
“So we use psychology.” Kamiko continued “ I was born in Amarillo Texas, but nobody but you two know that. You two were born on the Rez. Apache?”
Marc and Captain nodded.
“ I thought so. High CheekBones. Epicanthic fold to the eye, just like me. I think I’m about to become the mysterious Dragon Lady. We’ll start a Tong. You might think about our ‘mythos’ today. We’ll talk about it later.” she said.
Marc and Captain grinned and headed out the door. Time to get to work.
The Next Episode is
# 46: Lost him…
The Previous Episode was
#43: Family Squabble…
the First episode was
#1 : Prologue
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