Relic

What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

New York City had a short memory for violence,

You see, when someone says “it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.

The three-million-dollar Omega-9 Parallel Processing Computer, which took up a series of large gray boxes along one wall, was now completely silent.

Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.