A Perfect Crime (TWS)

It all started out just like any other day in the big city - perfect.

Absolutely perfect, on the will of the Council of Wisdom, without whom we would all be lost.

Perfect, and filled with criminal lowlifes who dared to think that it wasn't. And it was my job to find them, preferably before they caused any trouble.

Sure, it got messy at times, but what was a few cracked skulls in the name of perfection? It was their own fault for being too flawed to be re-educated.

Still, the Council of Wisdom had concluded that it might be a problem if I was enjoying these necessary moments a little too much.

Obviously I couldn't find fault with their assessment, but I told the chief that the Council of Wisdom wasn't out on the streets seeing what these thugs did. Dancing. Writing. Smiling without the express permission of the Council.

Fact was, somebody had to do what I was doing if the city was to maintain the Council's high standards.

Still, the Council had wisely decided they had to act, and so that was how I got stuck with a rookie fresh off the re-education center.

A rookie who hadn't quite grasped that, as perfect as the rules were, sometimes an imperfect situation called for imperfect methods.

And that was why, when we drove downtown to a residential complex to investigate the suspicious death of an unregistered journalist who had been writing illegal articles criticizing the Council of Wisdom, the rookie insisted that, in accordance with procedure, we fill out detailed identification forms demonstrating to the manager - the manager who I had known since Education Center 3, for the Council's sake! - that we were, in fact, authorized officers of the law.

It was a waste of time, and I knew it. But hey, better to teach the kid about the limitations of the perfect procedures carefully thought up by the Council of Wisdom now, on this stupid stuff, than in the middle of a fight. So I rolled my eyes, took the form, and started filling it out as the rookie did too.

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