" And here I thought you were the pessimistic one." I was." Momentary ebullience faded. "I still am. It's still gonna be really hard. But—that's a p...retty good thing to discover about your opponent on the eve of battle, isn't it? That she basically has no conscious idea of what she's doing and how to do it?"But, instead of responding in kind, Caitlyn sighed. "We're going to war," she said. "Against my family."And then: "This sucks." I know," Jon said, and took her hand. But somehow he knew it. Then I gave a report on our compliance with state and federal reporting of on-campus criminal activity. I finished up with a report on all incident reports for the 3/4 year to date that we had responded to.In the back of my folder there was a list of unscheduled activities that my department had to work in and be prepared for. The first one I already knew about. That was to be the visit by the Frost Borough College Board the first week of February to review and demonstrate our security.The. “If you speak to any free person in that way again boy, we will have to paralyses your tongue for the duration of your sentence. Your mother gave birth to you, you ungrateful little fagot.” He snarls at me and then leaves me be again. I don't see him but then I don't think anyone else in here can. I want to rub my jaw but my hands are still locked behind my back and held uncomfortably high up by a chain. I note that the others are in the same situation. “Dude what did you do?” The guy next to. Lexi checked with the neighbors, they say they ain’t seen anyone for at least a couple of days. You think we oughta get a warrant, search the house?’ ‘You think you have enough for a search warrant?’ Greg asked. ‘Nah, not with the goddamn tight-ass judges we got,’ Stan replied. ‘Why don’t you see if you can get an ID of Coughlin’s car, put out a BOL for it?’ Greg suggested. ‘Hey, kid, who’s the goddamn investigator here?’ Stan grumbled. ‘You think I need some snot-nosed wet behind the ears kid.