NaZooverse - Book 1: The Risen Curtain

Spying Crow & Mother-Son Talk

Nick groaned and stretched himself in his chair. This was probably the last one he had to do today. He looked at the clock. Five more minutes and Nick would be able to say that he was done for the day.

The last three days had not been very busy, and they actually have been rather peaceful, with only a minor inconvenience as he and Judy were call to check on an account of order disturbance that turned out to be only a false alarm. Well, it seemed like a false alarm, once the guy who was talking was very frantic on what he had described, talking about "water monsters", or something of the like.

The guy was take back to his home and the situation was all but forgotten.

Now, all left to do was to make some reports of how the day was.

Once more, Nick remembered how much he disliked paperwork.

Nick was finishing tipping his report, as professionally as he could, and describing the words of the guy who made a claim on the monsters.

That guy surely told one hell of a story. Nick thought as he wrote a brief resume of what the guy said. Saying that a blue fox boy turned a puddle into a monster and threw it at him... wow, now that is something. Kind of crazy. Still, it may not be crazier than other things that I have been going through lately.

It were around six p.m. when Nick finally finished and closed his computer. The tod was finally free from the dreaded paperwork.

Getting up, the fox decided to go for his partner.

He found the bunny in her own cubicle, absorbed into her own reports, and she seemed not to have noticed his approach. Nick smiled, and started to sneak in her direction as silently as he could.

He was now right behind Judy as she continued to tap away in her keyboard, looking at the screen. Nick rose behind her, a smirk on his face and his hands as if they were ready to grab on his target, when...

"Don't even think about it, Wilde." She said, immediately making the fox freeze in place, his hands in place and the smirk now out of his muzzle.

Soon, the fox was dropping his arms, looking at the bunny, who turned her head from her computer to look at Nick's face, now having a smirk of her own. She gently taped her big ears.

"Hearing range of three blocks, remember?" She spoke to him. "I can hear your steps right after you get out of your computer.

Nick pouted. "Man, I thought I had gotten you this time."

Judy chuckled. Nick could really be a very big kit sometimes. "Well, you are just in time. I have just finished this last report."

"Great, this means we can go now, right?" Nick said, sounding eager to finish his job and go home.

"Wow, you really don't like working, do you, Officer Wilde?"

"Not when I'm forced to do paperwork." Nick admitted, with the same casual smile Judy was used to so much. She smiled at him.

"Well, you should be thankful that Chief Bogo decided not to put us both only on it for the rest of the week.

Nick was force to agree with her. For a moment back on Monday, he had been worried that Buffalo-Butt was going to put him on desk duty until the end of his days. Mainly because the Chief mentioned something like that. However, it seemed that the Chief got a bit calmer after yelling at Nick for a bit, and especially after Nick gave a good explanation to why he was in there.

Of course, Nick had not told the Chief that he was making personal investigations on supernatural events, for he knew better, but he said that he had been gone to see Bellwether in order to be able to face her, for both his own and Judy's shake. He said that he just needed to look her in the eyes and confront her, what was actually not that far from the truth. Nick was once more thankful for being good in dealing with mammals and convincing them.