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investigation, yet during his first month on the Tayside force, he had
come to realise that within the smaller force he had joined, there was
nothing over which the DCC did not have a level of oversight.

"No," he agreed, 'probably not. But I'm enjoying it, nonetheless; the
chief and the senior officers are all first-class professionals and
good to work with. And don't tell me you don't like living in Perth,
either."

"I don't know yet whether I do or not," she replied. "Fine, it's
prosperous, the streets are clean, and we have this nice old house up
on the hillside, but we're lucky. Suppose we'd bought that place we
looked at in the town centre. We might have been flooded out with the
rest of those poor sods."

He laughed. "But we didn't and we weren't, so don't damn the whole
town because of something that didn't happen. Anyway, it was an
absolute freak of nature. There were precautions taken after the last
time, but nobody could have predicted last week's weather. If you
didn't believe in global climatic change before, believe in it now."

Karen Martin frowned. "So that's what our daughter has to look forward
to, is it?"

The toaster popped; he took out the first slice and began to spread it
with honey. "It won't be that dramatic all the time," he replied;
'besides, it'll be her norm. We were brought up during the Cold War,
remember; that was ours, frightening as it seems now. I was at a
dinner last month and I met a guy who'd flown nuclear bombers. He told
me that in 1962

the world was literally five minutes away from the edge. The crews
were in their cockpits, with sealed envelopes containing the bits of
Russia they would be expected to find and obliterate. You know what
else? They didn't have enough fuel to get back .. . not that there
would have been much to come back to. No, I'm glad she hasn't been
born into a world like that."

"She hasn't? What about September 11, and the aftermath .. ."

"Ah but.. ." He stopped. "Let's change the subject. That wee girl
over there represents the start of the finest years of our lives. She's
a shining light in all the gloom we've had recently. Let's just focus
on the good times and enjoy them."

"That's a deal," Karen agreed, pouring coffee into two mugs. "We can
start with our holiday this summer. Where are we going to take
Danielle?"

Andy took his two slices of toast and honey, and his mug, and sat down