Its A Working Theory

"Its been a day and you have a working theory?" Therod was sitting at her desk alone, the rest of our staff were out patrolling the streets or sleeping or doing whatever Guard people do when they aren't on staff. She wasn't wearing her full uniform (the Guard uniform is blue pants, undershirt, and jacket with rank, the jacket was off). It was a more casual look for her and I almost forgot she was a real asshole, almost.

"I work fast, you want the best you..."

"Don't go to you, but go on." I glared at her interruption.

"The merchants in my area killed him!" It seemed obvious, I was surprised Therod had not already come to the same conclusion.

"The Merchants killed the tax collector? Why?"

"To avoid paying taxes!"

"They all paid their taxes." She had adjusted herself from sitting with a lean to sitting straight up, at the same time she withdrew a ledger showing me monetary amounts.

"They were skimming the actual taxes!"

"I checked with the treasury their ammounts line up with the ledger, neither Jenkins nor the Merchants were skimming." I swear this theory sounded great until all these facts showed up.

"They are guilty! They treated me very badly when I asked!"

"Lorentino, this may surprise you, but people do not like you, ergo they treated you badly because they don't like you, on top of that I have all this information BECAUSE I ALREADY LOOKED INTO ALL OF THAT!" She slammed the ledger closed and glared at me, I glared back.

"Well that doesn't mean my theory doesn't work."

"Get out, I'm sorry I even asked you, just get out, go back to selling bullshit, I'll find Jenkins." Any other day I'd be happy to be dismissed, but screw that! I was totally more committed now that Therod didn't think I could do it! I'd show her who could figure out who killed Jenkins! (Me, I was going to find him). I just had to figure out where in the five fires this jerk lived. Seriously no one knew that, it was weird. And that was the start to the actual solution of who killed Jenkins (and yes he was dead, if that wasn't obvious).