voice testing... /terrified faces go here

[commissioner]

...I get the feeling you're not planning to go easy on me.

[...]

That look really isn't helping, in case you were curious.

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[birthmarked]

It's no trouble at all! I spent some time there so I'd like to give some advice if I can. I don't know how useful it is but...

I don't know things are so much improving as there's a calm for now? If you had to go now would be the ideal time. It's hard enough situation to adjust to even without all the craziness.

[commissioner]

Then I appreciate the help. [you're a life-saver, Sister.]

It looks like I don't have a choice in the matter when it comes to packing my bags for a 'fairy tale castle.' [yeah you can hear his skepticism about that whole deal.] But if that's the case, then at least I have the advantage of good timing.

What's the situation?

[birthmarked]

It does sound a little suspicious, huh? [Awkward laugh. Where does she even start...]

Well supposedly it's alive for starters. When you arrive it takes something precious from you. I lost the rosary my birth parents gave me while I was there for example. That's not even the craziest part of it all. The people there are from different places and times. People who aren't exactly 'people' in the traditional sense are there too.

[Should she even get into the talking ponies...]

[commissioner]

[...his brain is not ready for ponies, anything but the ponies...

you can sort of see his expression getting more and more unsure as she goes on, until she finishes. ...and then it's still unsure.]

In what sense, if not the traditional?

[birthmarked]

They're not human. They have thoughts, feelings, and personalities but... [She's frowning. He seems like a good man. Maybe it won't matter at all to him once he gets past the initial weirdness.]

Well it's just like normal people when you come down to it. Some are good and some are bad. The trouble is when they're bad they tend to be incredibly powerful. It's hard to bring them to justice and a lot of innocent people get hurt in the meanwhile.

[commissioner]

[not human? super-powered?

hard to bring them to justice, too. that is a big concern.]

How are they handled? [he imagines from the way she's talking about it, handcuffs won't exactly do the job.]

[birthmarked]

There's special prisons for them once they are captured. It's the catching part that's tricky. Luckily there are good people with power on the side of justice and peace to speed things along.

[commissioner]

So they go hand-in-hand. [not too ugly a picture, if it's hard to imagine.

but it's got him wondering where the joes come in. he doesn't think his usual sort of justice-doing would stand up well to high-powered crimelords when the normal ones are hard enough to keep locked up... or lock away at all.]

[birthmarked]

They do but I wouldn't be worried just yet, sir. In my experience even people without these powers can handle it. It won't go along as smoothly but, it isn't an impossibility. You just have to be smart and persistent.

[commissioner]

In your experience, Sister? Were you involved with the justice system in the castle?

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[birthmarked]

Not as much as I would have liked. The truth is most of my experience is exclusive to where I come from. I knew my fair share of powerful people who weren't human by conventional standards. Some were better than others. At the time I didn't really have the wisdom to know the difference. I fought a lot of unnecessary battles for the right reasons at the time. Looking back on it I feel foolish.

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[birthmarked]

But I guess that's part of growing up right? You have to learn the hard way. I'm guessing you don't have a lot of experience with people like that, huh? Just keep in mind they're still people even if they are different. Try to understand where they are coming from before fighting them, okay? You'll be a lot happier for it in the end.