"Yeah," Annie replied, giving a theatrical little shiver at the coldness of his hand (mostly just for effect, 'cause she was feeling kind of punchy from the adrenaline.) "It might be more fun doing this in, like, a really unofficial capacity? I mean, my authority was always kind of bullshit, anyway."

Especially in Baltimore, where it didn't exist anywhere but in her head, but still. Now she was really going around the law on all of this -- there wasn't any might about it. It was definitely more fun this way.