The police arrived roughly 20 minutes later. Maybe even a little sooner. Around 18 minutes if Blake had to guess.

The time went by pretty slow. All he thought about was the incident. Replayed it in his head. By the time the cops arrived he was ready to say what happened.

"So they had boston accents you say?"

"Yes. But I'm not sure if that's their real accent. There was moment when one of them. The younger looking one said something in a different voice."

"You said they were wearing ski masks?"

"Yes."

'And you could tell which one was younger."

"Well just by the body frame and voice. Something made me think he was significantly younger than the other two. Maybe he was a little younger than me."

"Your date of birth sir?"

----

About 30 minutes later the cops hadn't left. A detective had arrived. He went through the whole situation with Blake again. Didn't even look at the notes that the cops had taken when they heard Blake explain everything the first time.

"All they took was your computer?"

"Yeah. Laptop's it. They didn't even want my wallet or phone."

"Mmm," the detective said. "Thank you for your time."

----

They no longer had the ski masks on. They were driving a rented car that couldn't be traced back to them. At least not easily. They dropped The Kid off somewhere else. Blayne said he didn't want The Kid getting any deeper into this mess. "We shouldn't have The Prince of Mordor see his face."

"So The Prince eh?"

"Yeah. I think that's the only person who can handle this," Blayne said with his hand on the laptop they had just stolen.

"Alright." Danny looked back at The Kid from the rear view mirror, "You gonna be cool by yourself for the rest of the night?"

The Kid said yeah. What else would he say.

Danny stared at him a little longer than comfortable through that glass. Then he went back to looking at the road. They dropped him off at a diner. Told him to order a meal and sit there for a bit before getting an uber to drop him off back at his own place.

Blayne and Danny would be driving into the hinterlands. Past paved roads. To go meet the Prince of Mordor. A former information security wizard who had gone rogue. Had become a hacker. The kind of person who could find out what you had for breakfast that morning. Neither Danny or Blayne trusted the 

Prince of Mordor

. But they needed him right now.