A Bit Blunt

                Kole examined the woman standing before him. Her blue eyes were staring up at his with a mixture of barely suppressed fear and curiosity. She looked familiar, yet right now, Kole didn’t care. The insult of her presumptuousness made caring about familiar faces seem irrelevant. “Answers?” Kole sneered. “You forfeited all rights as soon as you came in here.” The girl named Carahya made a small gulp, her face drew a little bit tighter and skin grew a shade paler.  

                “But-” Carahya stammered.

                “Sorry, Ms…?” Tibias arose from his desk and gestured toward her.

                “Faroth” Carahya said.

                “Thank you Ms. Faroth.” Tibias said. “But we have something called office hours. If you wanted to talk to us, you should have come on Sunday from twelve to five.”

                “And now,” Royal chimed in, fiddling with a small gun in his hand in an obviously false non-threatening manner. “We must be forced to believe, due to the circumstances of your visit that you are either an enemy, someone with a deathwish, or both. They are often both.”

                Carahya  started backing away from Kole’s group. Kole could see her barely contained fear starting to crack through her expressions. “You’re right. I’ll come back on Sunday. I am sorry if I caused you any inconvenience. I’ll just leave now.” She turned to go.

                Kole flashed a predatory smile and the room temperature dropped ten degrees.  “Too late.” Dropping the scythe back into the shadows, he grabbed the blunt paperweight on his desk. he reached her before she could even turn around. Kole waited a fraction of a second so the girl could see him him behind her before he smacked her upside the head with a hunk of obsidian that was previously holding down a few papers. She crumpled to the ground.

                Kole walked back to his desk and placed his now bloodied paperweight off to the edge of his desk. “Thank you for the stone Tibias, it came in handy.”

                Tibias was eyeing the girl with a curious look. “You are welcome. “

                Kole looked over to his subordinate.  “Royal, get a magic barrier set up around her. I don’t want her escaping.”