"There was some sort of festival party thing. Someone bombed the platform where the mayor and her people were, before the parade could start. I think Hank had just general duty that day."

He definitely tried to stop Nida from his checking in and under floats. Nida hadn't bothered to let himself be stopped.

"But he's a good man, your partner. I very much respected his behavior. Even if I did run out of candy."

Which had nothing to do with anything, but it had been nice to see the man give a ruffian a pass just because he knew how bad things would be for anyone caught doing anything shifty in the face of the explosion. Hell, Nida's own brother had been arrested.