PETER and Carl weren’t the only ones trying to know the bicycle owner. The Cannon don of that murder night was, too.
The sudden sound of the falling bicycle had alerted him that night. He felt someone came there.
But his men had found nobody around when they searched. Yet he didn’t rule out the possibility that someone went there.
The learned fellow thought that the person might have been the cycle owner. So he installed a spy camera to see whoever came for the ride.
Now his camera captured Peter and Carl roaming there for the same cause.
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Peter observed how his close friend was trying to fathom things.
His own last words still lingered in the air like an echo.
We will get the boy. We will get him.
He spoke up now. “Hey, Carl. I’ve got a way!”
The reaction was fast. “What is it? You mean it’s possible? Tell me about it.”
Peter turned the matter around. For the way he’d found was June.
So, he just went asking about her instead.
“How is your wife? How is she doing? Has she started making progress with laboratory things?”
Carl went solemn.
“Oh, thank you. My June is getting better. Only, she still can’t work in the lab.”
Peter joined him in the solemnity.
“Mmm, she will definitely get well, Carl!”
“Thank you.”
A moment’s silence passed. And then, Peter picked up. It was on a different note.
“But she doesn’t necessary have to work in the lab.
“It’s like telling an ex-swimmer who escaped drowning to start over from the middle of sea.”
“It’s years since she left her work!” Carl answered, reminding him.
“Now where else will she start over, if not a laboratory?”
“I know it’s been years,” replied Peter. “But you know we aren’t talking just anyone here.
“It is a woman who grew up working in the lab.
“If she fell there, it will definitely be hard to pick up right there.
“So I get that you want her to resume. But we can try new ways!”
Carl had raised a shied.
“Now what ways are you talking about here?”
“It’s breaking the lab walls!”
“What do you mean?”
“Okay, it looks like your wife is getting so familiar with the lab. You know, she’s been working on this job since her teen years.
“It’s like her work mode got the feel of a stuffy room over time.
“Still her efforts in getting back to work shows she’s got the will, first of all. So here comes the way forward...
“We can give Dr. Martinez a bright work life and make her try experiments in open air!”
Carl thought about it. He found the idea good.
“That’s awesome, I never thought of it! I will do just that, Peter.
“I will tear down the walls and make June’s lab an open one!”
Peter chuckled. “Then you will rebuild them when she gets well, isn’t it?”
“Definitely.”
“This is why engineers are so complex!” blurted the law fellow.
“Why must you demolish a good building when there is open air everywhere?”
He stretched his hands to the bicycle behind, then quickly spread them wide like he meant “everywhere.”
The bioengineer glanced at the bicycle, then looked back at Peter.
He figured out what he meant to say, so he shook his head frantically.
“No, no, Pedro; we are not doing this!
“It took me months to get my girl to walk with me when everything came down on her...
“Now you want me to bring her back to Cannon. To examine this bike, or what? Say something else!”
He paused, wondered at the man, then took him up.
“Wait! Why don’t you have Pendulum handle your forensics? It’s you people’s job, Pedro. Why are you doing this?!”
Peter played the defence now, and he did it being kind.
“We’re killing two birds with one stone, friend. I really want June beating the odds!
“She’s the kind of scientist who can get us inventive ways to find our new witness.
“And she will be healing too as she does what she likes.”
He looked in Carl’s eyes and added this.
“I am saying this as a friend, and not as a Pendulum lawyer.”
Truly, the psychomicide case was everything war. It had started hot, with thrills and bursts of adrenaline...
But the fighters were down with injuries. Even Pendulum’s lawyer was sucking up to its client.
So, morale was down; but men must fight on.
Now Carl resisted this idea not because he hated the thing. But because he hated that he would do it.
When he vehemently refused Peter, it wasn’t because the idea showed no promise. But rather because the lab was Cannon.
He didn’t hate the idea. He hated the fact that he would do it.
That he would talk June into coming back.
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