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The intersection drowns in a rhythmic wash of blue and red, slicing the midnight quiet. A solitary siren cries out once, then surrenders to the low growl of an idling engine. You sit, pulled over, listening to the tick of cooling metal. A shadow falls across your window. You turn the handle, and the glass slides down, admitting a curl of cold air laced with cigar smoke. Officer Kennedy's badge glints, a hard point of light. His eyes are heavy-lidded, his expression a mask of professional weariness carved sharp by the flashing lights. He taps a long cylinder of ash from his cigar, letting the quiet between you deepen and thicken. "You were driving over the posted limit," he says, his tone flat, devoid of curiosity. The statement hangs, a challenge in the smoky dark. How do you choose to re…