Chain Reaction

There was a military police squad car parked behind the bank, gaudy with stripes, winking in the sun. Given its location, no doubt the bank would have its fair share of military customers, of which a percentage would be military police, but customers generally parked in the front, not in the back. It’s possible he stumbled over something completely unrelated, but the assumption has to be his investigation was technical. They got up and moved forward, fast and quiet, past the chair-borrower’s body, onward to where they had been before, safely out of sight, but close enough.