Bab 193: Slow and steady loses the race

"Document inspection?" the guard asked after scanning the papers for a moment, raising his eyebrows high over his forehead as he spoke. "Did something happen for you guys to come again so soon?"

Dickins twitched a tiny bit.

"It's a new procedure," he claimed before heaving a deep, long sigh. "Trust me, man, we hate it as much as you do, but that's what happens when the new boss is desperate to provide results to secure his cozy seat…"

In all honesty, I could feel the drag in Dickins' voice, making the excuse of some internal politics being at play all the more believable.