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“Ow! Ow! Ow!”
Elias sighed as he lightly touched Thomas’s face, applying a thin layer of ointment. “Can you stop complaining?”
“You are hurting me! They hit me, in case you didn’t notice. I may be a policeman, but there were two of them—big guys, too.”
“Oh, I saw it. I told you to let it go. I know those assholes. But thanks…”