He wasn't totally buying it, she could tell. She couldn't blame him, but he seemed to have taken enough of it on board to let him keep moving. That was the important part, right?

Asking about security, that was was a start. She snorted, dumped a handful of wet paper towel into the bowl along with the shards of ceramic.

"Bunch of bossy jerks who think they know best and don't hesitate to tell the rest of us all about it. Doesn't matter that most of them probably aren't any more qualified to do what they do than the rest of us, they joined the department and now they're all princesses."

She might not have been over the security decision that had her fleeing to a higher floor in the first place.