"Kids," Joe said. "I guess not. I should have stayed out of this end of the park."
"Up to you," Officer Wanatabe said. He wrote down their addresses.
"Thanks," Joe said.
"That's what we're here for. We'll hang around, ask a few questions."
Joe and Rhiannon crossed over to the shopping center. He congratulated her on having a cell phone. "I should have had pepper spray," she said angrily. "I'm getting some today."
"I'm going home," Joe said.
" You sure you don't want your face looked at? They kicked you after that one guy hit you with something."
"The little one?"
"He wasn't so little."
"The skinny one?"