<b>Mary</b><br/><br/>She was shocked ... had she made a mistake? taken the wrong photo? yet the atmosphere and the search for guns get to her?<br/><br/>This distracted her as he snatched her phone from and and dismissed her. While Mary was not well trained in combat she had done some classes in defense and had a basic medical training ... the large man was wheezing and gasping for air from minor excursion. She knew instinctively that he was merely a large but untrained bully who relied on size to avoid challenge.<br/><br/>"<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493">Sir, that is mine - I will have it back please</span>" her voice calm but without the deference that she previously showed now that he had shown himself to be an illegitimate authority figure. But still everyone had a better nature that they should be reminded of "<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493">your mother would not wish to read about you stealing woman's possessions in the paper, the insurance company would also have questions, the phone is worthless to you</span>" she had installed some apps to ensure her privacy and security and the phone would already be locked within the conversation "<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493">the police would frown on it also, my congregation would also be shocked as would some papers - please do the right thing and return my property</span>".<br/><br/>Those times spending learning about the law and how to use the devices that were so common these days were not wasted as some of the senior sisters had implied to her gently - the church needed to move with the times.<br/><br/>In truth she felt a bit bad about the hard sell -particularly given how a police force might react to a large black gang member with a stolen phone, but it was important he knew his actions had consequences and that he had to choose the right path - maybe that was the lesson she was her to teach?<br/><br/>She was normally excellent at reading people and so she hoped she had read him right in how he would not want the hassle and how maybe this would eventually encourage him to be better as a person.