She got a little snicker from him. Yeah, ladies were good. Something was off with her. His job to clock stuff like that. It hadn't registered first because it wasn't bad, wasn't a threat. He saw now that the girl was happy. At least thinking about the other one. Hah. How interesting. Smitten little thief. Suppose she was that age. He thought it was entertaining to see her work. Much more interactive than the shit clips he lost himself to in the wee hours of the night, trying to forget his own brain if he was still clear in the head. Almost meditative. Would she find something or not? Such suspense.<br/><br/>"You know how to move that much rock?" he joked when the meager lighting in here still made a show on the diamond she pulled up. He would have talked about thumbprints, but this wasn't murder. Might have brought it up to piss her off. Last thing she wanted was tips on how to do her flavor of crime from a cop. She had thought about his counting. Strikes was a shit system, but it was the one Yareli Law abided to. He liked to use it to his advantage, and so did the money bags here. As always, the numbers that really counted were the ones that lit up on your account.<br/><br/>He made sure to inch closer, his badge slapping Lucie on her chin a few times as he looked down at her. Proximity like this, he could smell her, feel the heat coming off. He could see the scalp between the dreds on her scalp. Reminded him that she was just a human woman after all, not this effervescent idea of a snitch in the night. And women have such good parts, when they scared shitless. What would it take for Lucinda to be scared, like, piss those baggy pants kinda scared? She'd look pretty damn good on an old mattress, too, her attitude might film well.<br/><br/>Her eyes were pretty. Were they friends? Yeah. Maybe. But he'd wanna try her out in some other capacity, soon. Aw, chucks. She was getting to him a little. He shrugged the thought away, erased the fantasies slowly. Too much work for not enough payoff. He liked her, but not that much. Put his palm to her forehead and pushed her back. It was friendly but he wouldn't mind if she bounced off the car she'd just raided. "You telling me what to do, Lu?" he asked with enough joke and enough wolf to let her know not taking him seriously right now could go either way for her. She hadn't seen him before, she din't know him. They were amicable, but he had a fucking real<i>death toll</i>.<br/><br/>"I heard the Hinan blocks had some problem with losing product." he said and relaxed his posture some. A break in that conflict would let him play both law and crime, over there. Word was Zha Wou Hinan was turning everything over, and that there would be Kageyama implications. Better stay ahead of the fucking war. "If you dig out something about that worth my time, I got some expiring impounded shit for you." Some of that stuff they kept could be worth big paydays if you knew how to move it, and it also meant he didn't have to shell out shit of his own cash.<br/><br/>Put his hands in his pockets, real casual. Whatever malice was revving up in him had settled for now. Yeah, Lucie was alright.