"The last time we met, it seems, was many years ago."
Officer Bredon was all smiles because the man in front of him was his best friend from high school, and also, in a way, his neighbor.
Those were not days worth remembering—impoverished families and a terrible neighborhood—but it was precisely this that gave Officer Bredon the drive to strive for more.
He had a great friend and classmate, David.
The two shared the same social class, the same living environment, facing much the same surroundings, yet they chose different paths.
Officer Bredon believed that becoming a police officer could change his situation of being frequently bullied, at least assaulting a police officer in the Federation was a serious crime!
As long as he donned that police uniform, if anyone truly tried to bully him, he'd have a justifiable reason to shoot the person dead.
