Detective Gordon: A Case With a Bang

Detective Gordon: A Case With a Bang — page 7 — Everyone is different We must understand that otherwise we make mistakes in our police work You and the crow for example think completely differently In what way Buffy asked You always want to solve problems The crow looks for terrible things she can tell others about Buffy put on water for tea and took eight cakes from the cake tin Two for herself and six for Gordon as usual Gordon went on reading Ha he said It was Bang I knew it You have to watch those trolls Buffy poured them each a cup of tea Gordon climbed laboriously out of bed His legs creaked and he had to adjust his ample stomach 8

Detective Gordon: A Case With a Bang — page 8 — Gordon was a very wise toad who thought a lot There was no one who thought exactly the way he did Trolls don't exist said Buffy Do mice said Gordon and he laughed Mice do said Buffy Of course said Gordon It's easy to deduce that mice exist You only have to talk to one to find evidence of it Buffy nodded pleased She was a police officer and she liked evidence We have not seen any trolls to date but that doesn't prove anything We haven't ever talked to a monkey either Do monkeys exist Well said Buffy Swallows often talk about monkeys when they come home from Africa That's a form of evidence But I still don't think there are trolls Ha but what do we know about the future Maybe we'll meet a troll tomorrow even Or tonight because trolls can't be out in the daytime You have to be prepared for the unbelievable Who would like the last nut cake Buffy didn't want to talk any more about trolls Gordon chuckled 9

Detective Gordon: A Case With a Bang — page 9 — KNOWS Of course you should have the nut cake because you love nuts dear Buffy Gordon looked admiringly at himself in the mirror A bulging stomach with slender legs and flat feet Bald head with large eyes and a wide mouth Exactly what a wise old toad should look like he thought with pleasure He took a strawberry tart and pushed it into his wide mouth And then another There's a lot of goodness in that stomach he thought Who how many cakes are in there Buffy jumped up on the desk chair again swung her feet a little and nibbled at the nut cake She always saved the nut until last

Detective Gordon: A Case With a Bang — page 10 — 11 be think Hrrm said Gordon trolls are interesting I myself am nineteen years old and tired in the legs You'll soon be two years old and as lively as any mouse Trolls on the other hand can be more than a thousand years old according to my books Aren't they just story books Buffy asked carefully And the troll called Bang is 1300 years old Gordon went on pretending not to hear the question Trolls are older than the largest trees almost as old as stones I They can't out in the daytime it says in my books If the sun shines on them they crack Hoo Poor things said Buffy Furthermore trolls are terribly rich continued Gordon You and I have just our police station our two beds and the cakes we need But these trolls have been digging for gold deep in the mountains And saving the gold in large caves How much gold Bang has enough to fill our entire police station Buffy looked around the room She was glad it wasn't filled with gold and was just an ordinary police station with room for two police officers Gordon took two cakes and squished them together

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