Baum sighed and looked out the window. It was the dreaded question on what he wanted to be when he grew up. He had always disliked troublemakers and people that broke the rules, but maybe it was more he wanted to punish those that thought it was okay to just abandon their children in a dumpster. It always irked him that they could just throw Kadali away like that; throw away a child like that. As if the child didn’t matter as if it wasn’t their stupid irresponsibility that caused this. So he always thought he wanted to be a police officer so that he could finally punish those types of people. However he wondered if that was just naïve thinking of a little kid. After all how many people actually grew up to be what they wanted when they were a freshling and for some one that wanted to be a police officer he had allowed Kieran and Pherein to drag him into way too many things. So what did he want to be? Should he continue with what he had planned? He had always been a bit inflexible, straight laced and on the arrow. However there was this growing need inside of him to throw that all away. It was a desire to throw everything that was him away and start over. He just hadn’t done so because to tell the truth such radical change scared him. He remembered a conversation that he had with Pherein where she mentioned everything did eventually change. So maybe it was okay if he wasn’t certain yet on exactly where he wanted to go. Maybe he would drastically change during his time here. He was still a freshling after all and there were plenty of years to redefine himself. Figure out exactly who Baum was, and maybe he enjoyed that a lot more. Perhaps down the road his dream of being a police officer would fade away but for now maybe it was okay for him to continue working on becoming one.
