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is you who shape them in this way?”.
    “Ahahah, Vincent, you Italians are always joking ... but now we’d better go, one of our service car is already waiting out here”.
    “Yes, Theodor, let's move ... this will not be a holiday for me, unfortunately”.
    The three men in uniform got into the first car, a three-door car with a few years on its shoulders but perfectly intact and working, while the two commissioners got into a German sedan from the Police Department of Monaco.
    Germano sat in the passenger seat while his German colleague sat at the head of the powerful sedan; during the first fifteen minutes of the journey to the police station, there was not the slightest exchange between the two, Germano continued to look out of the window in an almost blank way.
    “Excuse me, Vincent ... a few minutes passed since I'm wondering what you are watching so interesting not to say a single word ... after all you only see buildings and workers, there is also some nice park, for goodness sake, but nothing comparable to the views of your Venice or the Amalfi Coast”.
    “This is true, Theodor, but looking out I had the impression that everything has its own logic, its own way, which certainly can not be said of our beloved Italy”.
    “I don’t really know if it’s just like you say, Vincent, maybe there is a logic and a sense in your country as well, I am sure that there is, but I get the impression that you Italians are always too much focused to see your glass half empty, aren’t you?”.
    “Maybe you're right, Theodor ...”.
    “Ehehehe ... anyway, we're almost arrived to your hotel, Vincent”.
    The hotel Germano had chosen for his stay in the German land was in Corneliusstraße, in the central area of the city; it was, apparently, rather spartan and functional, exactly what he needed.
    Theodor Kaiser, having neatly parked the service car, went with his colleague into the building, until they reached the small reception; while Germano was filling some forms and giving his own identity card to the receptionist, there was a quick exchange of words, in German of course, between Kaiser and the front desk guy, during which Kaiser informed him about the identity of the young Italian commissioner.
    At that point, Germano was invited to go up to the second floor and to store his luggage in the room that he had been assigned; an operation which took no more than fifteen minutes, after which he went back to Theodor Kaiser, who had been patiently waiting sitting on one of the sofas in the narrow hall. They went together out of the hotel and headed towards the police station.
    This time the drive was instead full of exchanges between the two police officers; Theodor Kaiser tried to educate Vincent Germano on some German customs and traditions, providing him some A4 papers, he had prepared before, on which there were some of the most common German expressions, in order to make easier for his Italian colleague at least to make simple things such as ordering a coffee at the bar.
    Once they arrived to the police station, the two commissioners, after a quick greeting to the men of the guard, immediately went to Theodor Kaiser’s personal office.
    It was Theodor to start a new conversation.
    “I reserved a room here where you will work in peace, Vincent; it is not that big but there’s everything you could need, a computer connected to the Internet, a telephone, a fax machine and a desk. It is not that much but I thought that it could be enough since you’re not going to stay for a long time ...”.
    “You don’t need to justify yourself, Theodor, you’re offering a lot more than I would have expected”.
    “Let's say ... yesterday, as you can imagine, I had to anticipate
    Ms. Helena Singer you’ll go to visit her; of course I didn’t take the liberty to ask questions that relate in any way to your investigation, but when I told her about you ... I don’t know, I had the impression that she was happy ... Ms. Singer is a