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May. 6th, 2010 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kat8chaIt was tough getting the body to autopsy but the medical examiners were a little better about not puking their guts up at the sight of the mutilated body. They had not needed to rush it, except for the fact that the body might start to decompose and lose crucial bits of evidence, because the band of police tape stretched across the alley wall had a code encoded in it that sent the ASCs (automatic street cleaners) away. It was the ASCs who had notified the police in the early morning about the body, the chemical composition of blood was coded to send an alert to police headquarters and halt the ASCs routine cleaning.
Dan was at his desk ready to take his first sip of CaffAssist when a blinking notice showed up in the corner of his vision. Dan routinely opened the notice up to half-transparency so he could still watch the sedate police department while reading through his messages. The police room was as calm and quiet as it always was on a weekday morning, although there was a hint of agitation in the air. The mood sensors on several of the officers uniforms were turning orange from distressing emotions, they were no doubt getting notices to see the office shrink, who was no doubt being roused from her rest by a Pod notification.
Dan's Pod was informing him that the body had been processed and they had found something missing, a Pod. Dan was ready to pass this off as bias (not EVERYONE had a Pod) when he noticed that the medical examiner had found traces of Pod Pathways in the brain matter.
The thought of the mutilated body made Dan set his CaffAssist on his desk and push it away. Dan closed the message before he could process the images and stood up, while walking towards the door he triggered his Pod to send a notice that he was stepping out to talk to an informant and then send a notice to The Haberdashery. It was time to call on an old friend.
Or, not old, since both Dan and Akutsu were rather young, but old in the sense that they had been friends a few years ago. Or not friends, more like Mentor and Mentored except not because Dan had been a police officer while Akutsu was a convicted hooligan. Still, Dan thought of Akutsu as a friend, even if Akutsu thought of him as nothing more than a bother. Dan sat down in the clear plastic half shell of his Travel Unit and his Pod brought up the pre-programmed coordinates of The Haberdashery. The half shell enclosed Dan in clear plastic protection with a soft 'whoosh' and then rolled out of the parking center at a sedate and law abiding pace.
Dan was at his desk ready to take his first sip of CaffAssist when a blinking notice showed up in the corner of his vision. Dan routinely opened the notice up to half-transparency so he could still watch the sedate police department while reading through his messages. The police room was as calm and quiet as it always was on a weekday morning, although there was a hint of agitation in the air. The mood sensors on several of the officers uniforms were turning orange from distressing emotions, they were no doubt getting notices to see the office shrink, who was no doubt being roused from her rest by a Pod notification.
Dan's Pod was informing him that the body had been processed and they had found something missing, a Pod. Dan was ready to pass this off as bias (not EVERYONE had a Pod) when he noticed that the medical examiner had found traces of Pod Pathways in the brain matter.
The thought of the mutilated body made Dan set his CaffAssist on his desk and push it away. Dan closed the message before he could process the images and stood up, while walking towards the door he triggered his Pod to send a notice that he was stepping out to talk to an informant and then send a notice to The Haberdashery. It was time to call on an old friend.
Or, not old, since both Dan and Akutsu were rather young, but old in the sense that they had been friends a few years ago. Or not friends, more like Mentor and Mentored except not because Dan had been a police officer while Akutsu was a convicted hooligan. Still, Dan thought of Akutsu as a friend, even if Akutsu thought of him as nothing more than a bother. Dan sat down in the clear plastic half shell of his Travel Unit and his Pod brought up the pre-programmed coordinates of The Haberdashery. The half shell enclosed Dan in clear plastic protection with a soft 'whoosh' and then rolled out of the parking center at a sedate and law abiding pace.
