[Kim doesn't look up as the detective shovels toast into his mouth and cries. The man needs some dignity, even if his body seems to reject any effort to remain dignified. It's the least he can offer him.
At the question, however, Kim pauses. He briefly glances up to study the detective, to gauge where this question is coming from. All he can really make out are the tears that stream from his eyes and the detective's default, miserable, sweaty expression.
Sometimes, Kim wonders just what's happening in that brain of his. At times, the detective seems scattered, lost in his own thoughts for minutes before snapping back to reality. Other times, he approaches his tasks with a manic fervor, as is possessed by some unseen, driving force.
Kim isn't sure whether or not he wants to know.]
Of course we're still cops. We may not have jurisdiction here, but I doubt that we'd be dismissed from duty while on this brief...mandatory vacation.
[Even as he says it, however, he's worried. Worried that, for some reason, there might have been a temporal displacement in addition to the physical. It's happened in the science fiction books that he's read, and as much as he doesn't like it, it's becoming very apparent that he's caught in the middle of a supra-natural incident.
As if the monsters didn't tip him off enough.]
And even if we aren't on duty right now, it's still important to uphold the RCM's values and act appropriately.
[Please don't make me have to pick you up from jail, is what he thinks to himself. We don't know what the prison system is like here.]
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At the question, however, Kim pauses. He briefly glances up to study the detective, to gauge where this question is coming from. All he can really make out are the tears that stream from his eyes and the detective's default, miserable, sweaty expression.
Sometimes, Kim wonders just what's happening in that brain of his. At times, the detective seems scattered, lost in his own thoughts for minutes before snapping back to reality. Other times, he approaches his tasks with a manic fervor, as is possessed by some unseen, driving force.
Kim isn't sure whether or not he wants to know.]
Of course we're still cops. We may not have jurisdiction here, but I doubt that we'd be dismissed from duty while on this brief...mandatory vacation.
[Even as he says it, however, he's worried. Worried that, for some reason, there might have been a temporal displacement in addition to the physical. It's happened in the science fiction books that he's read, and as much as he doesn't like it, it's becoming very apparent that he's caught in the middle of a supra-natural incident.
As if the monsters didn't tip him off enough.]
And even if we aren't on duty right now, it's still important to uphold the RCM's values and act appropriately.
[Please don't make me have to pick you up from jail, is what he thinks to himself. We don't know what the prison system is like here.]