"It doesn't make a difference," Miku said, smiling at him. "If I went to sleep, I'd just dream you came home." Most of Miku's dreams were of her spending time with her father. Except usually she could walk in these dreams, and they'd run around and play together. But her dreams were never as good as the real thing. "I would love to go out into the garden today," she said brightly. Glancing out the window she said, "I think the lilies are finally blooming."<br/><br/>----------------------<br/><br/>Yin glanced over at Ming, sure he was an inch from a brag fest. Clearly that criminal had been guilty, but there's nothing you can do when there's not enough evidence to convict them. She felt bad for that family who would go without consolation. It wasn't fair, but sometimes things just went that way in the law industry. Unfortunately it happened rather often. It deeply hurt her sense of justice that she couldn't change that.<br/><br/>"I have no idea where the evidence went or how it was stolen," she said tartly, pushing up her glasses and frowning. "But the next time that scum shows up in this court house, I'm convicting him. That is absolute," she pushed up her glasses again and walked down the steps of the court house. It was rather hot out today, but she couldn't go to the air conditioning of her house just yet. She had some place to go. She couldn't make things completely right, but she didn't intend to let that family suffer.<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>After a short walk, the female lawyer climbed up the porch steps of a little, slightly run down house. She gave the door a sharp knock. A moment later a man opened the door.<br/><br/>"I thought the case was over," he said gloomily.<br/><br/>"It is," Yin said shortly. "I cannot change the verdict, and I cannot bring your wife back. But you and your children deserve consolation." Without another word she pulled a slip of paper out of her brief case and held it out to the man.<br/><br/>Curiously the man reached out and read what was on the paper. His eyes widened, "Three hundred thousand yen?!" He exclaimed.<br/><br/>"The amount you would have received from that scum had you won the case. Use it to feed you and your children and get back on your feet." She turned and walked away, his cries of thanks barely reaching her as her sense of justice boiled inside her. She didn't blame Judge Marlon. He couldn't rightly convict a man without the proper evidence. Surely he hurt worse than her, having had to deliver the acquittance himself to that scum.