Cold air whooshed against Mina's face and forehead as she stood outside the playdome, but it was nowhere as cold as the glare from Ms. Cilan's newly revealed eyes. As a much bigger lackey of Sparky's handcuffed her, her eyes cut like the icy steel of a frozen knife.

"I'll need to talk with an attorney," she muttered, as the enormous detective shoved her towards the car.

Betraying her age of eighteen, Mina felt the childish need to gloat. She crossed eyes stupidly and tapped her button nose. "Well you can't talk to me. I'm your boss's attorney!"

"Wasn't planning on it," Penny grumbled. "You fifth rate airheaded hack!"

Mina lashed towards the disgruntled Mana-Jerk and it was only the restraining hand of her boyfriend that kept her back. Ms. Cilan had been nothing but snooty, snobby, dismissive and downright judgy towards her from the start. She was practically another Ashley Ryan ('they even have the smug light green eyes to match Mina had observed) and one was certainly bad enough.

Speaking of the accursed lioness prosecutor, Ashley and a timid looking Sparky approached their newfound captive. By the way the deputy carried himself, Mina knew that it was she who carried his truncheon in her emerald purse.

"She almost got away, but luckily, I rounded up the ruffian," Sparky humbled bragged.

Ashley merely twirled her pointy nose in the air

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"I don't care how it gets done, deputy. Just that it's done!"

"Y-yes, sir!" Sparky stuttered and then saluted.

Mina and Ashley both turned in silence to the saluting deputy who had seemingly misgendered the prosecutor. Ashley raised a glove with oddly pointed edges. "Deputy, I do believe you have some ugly on your back. Turn around…"

Sparky nervously sidled around and before he knew it, the prosecutor had taken her catlike gloves and slashed it across his back.

"Gah!" the wimpy young man cried as he fell to his knees.

"Sparky!" Mina and Blind shouted.

Ashley strutted away as the two people who cared ran towards Sparky. "I do believe," she said, snarling. "If you can't tell I'm an L-A-D-Y, than you are blinder than my vision compromised ex!"

Blind and Mina crouched on the ground, treating the man who had just gotten scratched by a jaded lioness. Blind shook his head defiantly. "For a so-called lady, she can be the furthest thing from ladylike sometimes."

Mina put her arm on Sparky's shaking shoulder. "You know, she can't just attack police officers. You could press charges if you want…"

"That's okay…" Sparky said, grinning sheepishly. "There's nothing I respect more than a dominant lady of the law."

"Wait a minute…" Mina squeaked. "You called her that on purpose…"

Blind shook his head. "What a sub…brain."

The now ignored Penny Cilan managed to yell at Mina before Ashley and the brute detective shoved her in the car. "Mark my words, attorney. You're going to learn the hard way about Dustin. He's the definition of a two timer…in relationships… and in crime!"

"We'll see about that," Mina called back, now helping Sparky up. "Just like you will get a right to a free trial, my Dustin will too!"

The mana-jerk's nostrils flared and her eyes seared with fury. "Keep going down this road, and you're gonna get Dustin-crossed!"

With those cryptic words, the police car closed, carrying another suspect to police station leaving Mina to wonder what they meant.