Wooden toys

AUTHOR'S POV:

IN PARI'S OFFICE,

" Let's leave the stalker, for now. Let's see about the Tuesday murder case we should at least stop the murder, even if we couldn't find it's okay but we shouldn't lose another life, understand?" She asked both Francis and Sara who were seated in front of her.

"Okay, I said others to check the footages of the crime spots so go and collect the footages and ask if they felt anything suspicious! Keep an eye on that! " As she said, he walked to check on others.

" So let's take the first clue. The toys! I found something suspicious about these toys. Why should he have to keep toys with a dead body? There should a reason, right?" She was dwelling over the point for a long time.

"Is there any specific information about the toys?" She still didn't have the heart to leave the point.

" Yes, mam. These are handmade wooden toys. These are made for toddlers especially to avoid the toxicity of plastic when they, are chewed by the kids." Sara read from the file.

"But we do not get it everywhere right?" Pari asked again like she got some point.

"Yes, mam. We can get wooden toys but not the handmade ones. They are made specially!" Sara said.

"That's it! So it is easy to trace the shop or the producer, right?" Pari asked enthusiastically.

" Yes, mam. Chances are high!" Sara grinned.

"We got something, let's check it! Get your laptop here" She said as she sat on her swivel and opened her mac book.

Sara went out of the cabin to her cubicle to get her laptop.

On the way back one of her way back Francis interrupted,

"Sara, where is the HT file that Karthick sir gave me the last week?" He asked her still immersed in his file.

"It's in my cupboard!" She scratched her head as her senior was standing beside her, she was a little bit flustered as his file is with her.

"I want it now, can you please get me now? I will come after passing this file to the record room" He said and moved.

She went to take the file when she was searching, he came and stood behind her.

"Here!" She handed it to him.

"Yup! Thank you, what are you doing?" He asked as she turned to leave.

"Parinithi mam, called! We are working on something!" She said with a grin.

"Good, go!" He said as he ruffled her loose hair playfully.

" Godzilla!" She stuck her tongue out. He chuckled at her response.

" You go see your work!" She muttered and was on her way to Pari's office.

"Sara!" An officer yelled for her.

"Yes, mam." She stopped her steps and asked her politely.

"Get me a coffee!" She ordered Sara.

"Sorry, mam. I have some work, so can you please get it by your self?" She said politely, it's not her work but still, if someone asks she does it as a help.

"You can do it after getting my coffee!" She said in an unconcerned tone.

" But Pari mam..." The officer interrupted again.

" It's not like she can't work without having you, is it?" She asked apathetically, there was a smirk adorning her face.

"Stop! That's enough!" Francis yelled from where he was.

He came forward with the file in his hands.

" Sir! You mean?" The officer asked innocently.

"Don't act as if you don't know, Ms. Elisa!" He was angry at how they treat Sara.

"Franc..." Sara was cut by him.

" You mean?" Elisa asked with a smile.

" Stop ordering around her!" He gritted out his words.

"But why?" Elisa exclaimed.

"Because you shouldn't order her!" He gritted it again.

"There's nothing wrong with ordering my juniors, isn't it?" Elisa said nonchalantly.

" Maybe she is a junior officer but not to you, she is junior to Parinithi mam! And her post rank is higher than your's means she takes the fourth rank in the team after me. You don't have the power to order her, did you hear that? You have no right to order around her. Even if a person is below your post, you still don't have the right to order them because they are officers, not your personal assistant!" He spat back.

"Don't take advantage of her leniency, whoever it is remember no one here, is your personal staff, they are government servants so don't order around. If you want you can request them and they will if they can and if they want to!" He warned everyone.

Hearing his sound Pari came out of her cabin.

"What happened? I heard your yell?" She asked blinking.

"Nothing mam. Everything is fine, I was giving them some instructions!" He said in a professional tone.

"You sure?" She asked again getting confused with others facial reactions.

"Yeah! Mam, sure!" He said again.

"Okay! Sara, you took time!" She raised her brows.

"Sorry mam, it's because of me. I asked for a file" Francis apologized.

"Yeah, that's fine! So, now can I take her with me?" She asked, he nodded.

Then she walked back to her cabin with Sara tracing behind.

"Back to work!" He said gesturing everyone to get back to work.

He was very irritated with some people's behavior, even Pari and Karthick won't order they just request her if they need any help out of work. She is indeed in a higher rank than others, they are assistant investigators whereas she is a junior investigator. She will not be a junior anymore after one or two months but as she helps everyone they take it for granted.

Elisa was at the peak of rage she was embarrassed before her co-workers.

INSIDE PARI'S CABIN,

"What's wrong with your loverboy?" She smirked as Sara blushed.

"Mam!" She whined.

"Yeah! Tell me, I know there is something!" She asked not drifting from the topic.

"Nothing big..." She was interrupted by Pari.

" Cut the chase!"

She told everything that happened there.

" You should stop being like this, you know you will not be a junior anymore in one or two months!"

" I know mam, but..." She trailed off.

" No buts, learn to hold power!"

"Mam, will not look like head weight?"

"Do I look like one?" She asked smirking.

"No mam. Absolutely not! But I thought it would be!"

"It's okay, you don't have to do everyone's work. Learn to say no!"

"Yes, mam!" They started their work.

" Mam, there four types of woods used in this state for making these toys!"

" Yeah! Come and see, here!" Sara rolled her chair towards Pari.

"Oh my gosh!" Sara gasped on seeing the screen.

" Freaking costly this is. This is half of my salary!" Pari chuckled at her reaction.

"Hand made one's are really costly, they take time to craft it!"

"Yeah, but still I am sure he must be crazy! Hell! Why does he want to pay so much money just to place it with a corpse? He is a..."

" A Psycho!" Pari completed her sentence.

"Sure he is!" Sara muttered under breath.

" In this state, the toys are made of four types of wood,

Rosewood

Maple

Walnut

beech.

Among this rosewood is the costliest one" Sara readout from her MacBook.

" Nope, neither of this!" Pari nodded negatively.

" Then?"

"Here, one is sandalwood and another is ..." Pari passed a file to Sara.

"Sandalwood and Agarwood" She started searching for them.

She gasped once again.

"Mam!" Sara exclaimed.

Pari chuckled " I know this would be your reaction, Agarwood is the world's second-costliest wood whereas Sandalwood is in four!"

"You know it already?"

"Nope, just now I got to know too. I know about Sandalwood but about Agarwood I came to know just now!"

" That psycho should be filthy rich! Damn! It would take my full year salary just to buy a toy"

"Yeah! I said right there is something related to these toys, now I am damn sure about that!" There was a knock on the door.

" Come in!" Pari yelled her eyes glued to the screen.

Sara was close beside her as same as Pari she was also into the screen.

"Mam!" Elisa's voice made both of them lookup.

"Yes?" Pari asked her attention again to the screen.

"You have to sign these files, we have to send it to the record room," She asked her eying Sara who was beside Pari.

"You get it from Francis!" Pari said without taking her eyes from the screen.

" Mam, he went to eat lunch. You said to finish it before lunch!" Elisa said.

"Oh! Okay. Sara if you don't mind, please sign it after checking the file whether if anything from the last case is missing"

Both Elisa and Sara stared at Pari.

"But, mam..." She was cut off by Pari.

"I am not in the mood to read it, Sara. You know you can sign! Please do it for me" She said getting frustrated, she never liked to read record files.

It should be signed by any of the investigators, to file it in the record. These files are used for future references.

" Yeah, okay mam!" She said and read the summary of the report for the next five minutes.

Pari never liked to read the record files she often dumps them to Karthick.

Sara's phone decided to break the silence.

UNKNOWN NUMBER

" Hello!"

" Hello is this....."

"Yeah! A minute I pass to her"

"Mam, a call for you"

"Who?"

"Sir!"

" Which sir?"

" Your husband, Yuvi sir!"