‘Instructor. Such an interesting word,’ Janna thought to herself. ‘What exactly is an Instructor? Someone who instructs you to do something. Yes. But that’s not a ‘teacher”.

Making up her mind, she turned to Matthew and said, “Matthew, I do not accept your title as ‘Instructor’. You are not ‘instructing’ me to do something. You are sharing knowledge, you are teaching. Perhaps you could use ‘educator’ or ‘professor’.” She smiled, satisfied with her observations.

“Thank you, Janna. I’ll keep that in mind. And once again, please call me Mr. Tanner; not Matthew. Take your seat.” Not for the first time that morning, Matt wondered why he had taken the job at the Gifted and Talented school.

“There’s no time!” Grabbing his arm, Marie yanked on him and started to run. Looking over her shoulder, she could see Mark still trying to grab the satchel.

“Leave it!” She shouted, paranoia edging into her voice.

The double doors at the end of the hall burst open and the stampede of officers started toward them.

“I distilled the case notes into the …” Carrie began explaining her process.
“You distilled?” Mark stopped her.
“Yes, distilled.” She hiked an eyebrow at him. “You do know what distilled means, don’t you?”
“Yeah, like Whiskey?”
“Distilled means to purify, yes. It also means to extract the most important meaning from something.”
“Oh.”

The Sergeant stood over us, arms waving in the air, spittle flying from his flapping lips.
Max and I glanced at one another and both reached for a napkin.
“This is a problem of bible, biblio,…bibliacal, DAMN IT!”
He always got frustrated when his words didn’t come out right, which was often.
“Biblical.” I said.
“Thank you.” He took a breath and continued his tirade. “And I don’t know how in the hell you idiots think you can just sit there and smirk at me when this shit’s going down.”
Max grabbed his coat and headed for the door.
Shrugging at McLeode, I grabbed my coat and headed after Max.

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