"I do," he says, relaxing a bit into the couch. "Feels a bit less like I've sold out - not to get down on my boss, but deputy sheriffing sometimes feels a bit like patting the populace on the head so they'll look the other way. I don't know if I do a lot of good over at Thames, but I try. Sometimes people, specially new arrivals, just don't know what the laws even are here. I do what I can. And," wry, "if nothing else, they need someone to file paperwork when things are slow."
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