Let's Talk or Not (Monica)

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

Monica listened and as she did" they would have had to disable the human servant or be known to not be seen as a threat so ask the sevants which it was and who if it's the second. The perp probably hoped we'd kill the servants to but the power circles protected them through the true deaths"

Listening to the next bit made her groan and she couldn't help it" check for traces of illegal drugs like heroibe or meth..I know you've heard of the nola show down those lions were on a designer drug that we are now unfortunately finding in more places that contained that sort of mutt like mix of creatures and compounds. It made them hard to kill and almost zombie like so nothing to say it wouldn't do opposite for undead making them more animal"

Hoping she was right but worried still because drugs they would handle better but stillbeho had figured out how ro boost virility of the drug?

[Bhaskar Yatri]

"Freak parties..." he exclaimed the thought hitting his tongue as it crossed his mind. Access. Drugs. Lowered inhibitions. It added up but they were as secretive as they were well known. True urban myths. The closest theyd come ro crashing one was a case in Chicago where the former temoin was supposedly killed at one by three men two black and one white.

But that was another reason the freak circuit went even further underground. It might even be the wrong tree. He didnt think so but anything was possible.

"Good idea Davis. We need to skedaddleso we can male our rounds we can get afee other deputies to run some of our leg work."

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

She nodded and ended her recording gsve the m.e her contacts. Then fallowed bhas out not looking forward to either his driving or going to Gabriel.

Sliding in she booted up and copied all the recorded info in text and audio clips to the case file she was building along with a second tree of ideas slowly leading back to a few question marks they still had.

[Bhaskar Yatri]

He wasnt looking forward to Gabriels himself but it was a duty. He knew first hand that not all preternaturals were evil. He knew oftentimes it was the oh so human who were more monstrous. Sadly the laws never reflected that. In fact it was downright normal to discriminate.

Sigjing as he merged with traffic his lead foot so much lighter as he dreaded going. "So Davis give me a working theory here what do we have going?"

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

She bit her lip then head tilted" the drug was horrible enough to addict even vampires of significant strength. The compound was a virulent nasty mix of actial drugs and magic and lycanthropy."

Pausing" if the witches have figured out how to corrupt the compound enough to piggy back in on the thing that makes it effective even against vampires. It would be useful as they wouldn't need a full coven just the one or two. Still trying to sort how the injection happened like did they have a party did the servant get compelled?"

She shrugged still working on that bit.

[Bhaskar Yatri]

He mm-hmmed as he drove thinking on her insights. His mind seized on what the M.E. had said about the forty-eight hour window. It was the outlier. Why create a contagious debilitating fairly nasty piece of work that killed itself why not let it run its course which would be the end of the infected after all with beasties running around like that it wouldn’t take long before law enforcement had a KOS order put in. It would be the perfect way to have an end put to whoever was infected.



" I remember reading that. There were even plans being made as to how to cordon off users and simply exterminate them. It never got beyond talks but it was a a serious consideration but just like that the supply seemed to dry up. So it was tabled."



He guided the car through a minor snarl using the shoulder and quite a lot of drafting. On the other side he began speaking again. “Now a bigger question how does this dovetail with the Witches profiting. Whatever they’ve done here has a limited time frame that clearly most don’t know about? And they are taking out their own vicariously. It doesn’t add up without knowing how they whoever they are profits by this. What would be a motive strong enough?”

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

What would be strong enough she pondered then it spilled out" what if you could hold members of the kiss hostage or control masters of the city by fear so that they were puppets rather than actually a power? I know cities where vampires are the lesser to the shifters but what if they could be bumped to bottom by witches. Though in public eyes any wrongs would still be the vampires "

She shuddered softly "pure chaos as we wouldn't know who or what to look for and eventually the masters would retaliate it would be carnage.Things could revert to the old laws which while not easy for the witches were deadly for anyone but them."

Maybe she was thinking to broadly" or maybe its just biological warfare testing to sell to places with vampire problems..that doesn't make as much sense to me though"

[Bhaskar Yatri]

He liked that angle it could be sold easily enough and maybe get them more funding and help to combat it. Even with as pragmatic as some of the government was when it came to combatting the potential for wrong the preternatural presented they were often too slow to act.



" I like it. I like that angle its easy to grasp. Its human nature to make ourselves look better by making others look worse. And witches for as far out in the light they are are viewed mostly harmlessly by the public. But how would they threaten enough vampires to make them toe the line long enough or act out open enough to get a few laws repealed? And why kill their own? "



He echoed her shudder without meaning to but they were nearing Gabriels and the feel of the world shifted. It was an effect he always experienced. The place seemed steeped in bad feelings that permeated even the air. He hated the place even as he knew it could be beneficial to those that made it out. Not many did sadly most became so institutionalized that they just gave up. For some strange reasons, Canid lycanthropes did better here along with low level witches. Felid types generally died by their or others hands unless they became bosses. Though he guessed the right word would be alpha’s. Even then they tended to not make it out not in one piece. The counselors had a hard job and often couldn’t teach the newly infected fast enough to keep them from giving up.



Nodding up the road he said, "We’ve got three stops inside one on the Mancy ward and two on the Infected one in medical. Before we go in do you have any reservations for what we are here for. Officially its to insure that none of the violent dangerous preternatural get out to act on their impulses. That they have been properly trained and pose no clear threat to the public at large. Which is code for find some reason to have an execution order issued." Sighing as he thought on whether to be totally honest.



" Just so you know. My release evaluation rate is the highest of any Federal district. It’s the nation’s highest. It as of last month was a whopping point oh six percent. Gabriels is the leader in the industry for education and training and even then I in good conscience can’t speak to a minimized risk these people pose the public. I however try to balance that with a very low execution order rate. I know its not much of a life inside. But at least its life."

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

She looked at him" I have all manner of reservations about this because I realize had I been born to diffrent less educated or informed parents you'd be coming to decide my release instead of me being where I am today. That will not stop me from up holding the law and doing my best to make sure any one released will do well for society as we don't need any further bad light. Personal feeling aside and I appreciate your efforts to see that un nesscary deaths do not happen hopefully one day places like this will only exsist to hold those who arnt meant to be with other people like..serial killers or rapists."

She closed the laptop as they wouldn't need it here. This was more a minimalist situation you got rid of anything that someone fast and strong could kill you with. Guns were few and far between for the same reasons and most carried only silver or sedatives.

Her longer hair was neat as a pin and pulled into a low bun. She'd limbered up before. Belatedly she remembered that they might smell samuel on her but shed slready spent two days away fro him do it would be faded.

[Bhaskar Yatri]

He carried heavy normally usually six clips and a holdout but as he knew what they were heading into. It was a prime way to find ones self missing not being prepared for the almost guaranteed promise of violence. He thought of what they might need.



“Well its a hard long stretch trouble seems to follow preternaturals. Even the Irish wunderkind that you were caught up with seemed to attract issues. It’s a shame really truly sadly it feeds into the image of preternaturals being dangerous.”



Pausing as the gatesman ran his credentials he turned to Davis saying, “ I never asked you are you faithful. Its going to be very important… Some well-meaning witch helped charm the building so that if any preternaturals attempt using their abilities in an aggressive manner symbols of faith glow. They don’t burn but they light up in warning."

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

"He only attracted trouble because he was doing what was right he didn't want the very drugs that we think we are now facing again in his neighborhood. So how can we blame him for that?"

That bothered her and she didn't know why but she felt need to defend her bear friend. When she was asked about faith" raised in church but it didnt stick I'm much to free and logical thinking. Though love I believe in and those in my heart are where I put faith. I guess um if I were married it would be a ring or normally its my saint chris's because I gave faith in getting to see my family again..but didn't wear that out the house before all this happened"

She shrugged though her hand went to the train pendant absently. She belived in samuel and his love and his promise to move heaven for her. So maybe this would glow of she needed.

[Bhaskar Yatri]

"It makes sense. This job especially on the local level can more times than not test your faith. Yet if you believe if you have that other it can also define your faith." He said. H ewasn’t one to offer an apology normally at last not a true one. He was good at the faultless apology. He knew however that Davis had a burr because of how her friend was sure to be viewed. So he responded, “I am sorry your friend is viewed that way people are often blind to anything but their own fear. Lets go by Medical first.” He slipped his phone from its holster bringing up the particulars before slipping it back away.



“We’re going to see Patricia Sellam a nineteen year old Felidae infectee. They believe she has contracted a lion strain. She has been a model detainee until recently. Her father brought her in when she was attacked by an ex boyfriend who was a known lycanthrope. The boyfriend was put down when he tried to break her out of custody back home in Ohio. She hasn’t been a problem until recently seems she wouldn’t toe the line and was jumped by unknown detainees. Mostly unknown one of her attackers is here as well but she is a lifer she won’t ever be getting out. Its all I can do to keep her from having an execution order sent down. It would be a simple thing but for some reason the psychiatrist is pushing to have her stay another year.”



He wouldn’t speak his fears aloud he’d see what Davis picked up. It was all too pat and fishy to his nose. The same Psychiatrist had pushed for several other girls and younger boys to stay. Bhas didn’t like the idea forming in his head but couldn’t shake it either. Officially the head shrink was potentially right any violent act could be cause to delay a release date but most of the last few times it had been in cases like this where clear cut self-defense could be drawn. It was just a feeling nothing substantial but it was there all the same.

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

She took the apology and said no more about it. Then listening to him" I will be able to confirm which pretty much immediately by looking at her, and maybe she will open up to me..you sort of scream law enforcement "

Smirking at that but then his concern over the shrink made her jaw tight oh she'd find out alright." I can also speak with the psych and if they are doing something..off then I will find it and they will regret their bad life choices before we leave"

That was said with a smile but it was the type of smile that didn't hit the eyes and read as a hair dangerous. If the girl was lion she'd get her to samuel after thry got her released. If she was other monica would find a good group for her even if she had to reach out to other states she had ties in.

[Bhaskar Yatri]

He smirked at her having all but read his mind. He would have to keep a better watch. She’d said emotions but the fact emotions could be so telling he would have to be more wary. Not as wary as if she were a telepath but definitely on guard last thing he needed was to let slip some triple black Top Secret information. “You’re good I will have to remember that… " he said as they were buzzed through into the medical wing. The original facilities offered them a slew of options but they kept as much the same as they could simply because it was more cost effective. As it stood the remodel had taken the bulk of a year with approved overtime and most expenses being blank checked to fruition.



As far as the politicians it was the best of both worlds. They could give the image of being tough on crime and big hearted all at once. He wished they hadn’t been so blessed. It was a prison through and through and all the more claustrophobic as the place was designed to withstand even a bunker buster just as an added protection against anyone escaping, ever. Each of the seven gates they walked through was not only a foot thick but charmed in such a way that any preternatural person walked through by a living non-preternatural. He knew there were also deterrents in place hidden in the alcoves near each gate. Most of which were designed to be lethal to any non-preternatural and damn near so for preternaturals. Those were never shown just in case one of the detainess was psychometric or telepathic.



As they passed through the next gate Dante’s divine comedy came to mind." True enough but screaming law enforcement could also be seen as the way out. I do my best to seem non-threatening." He shrugged. But he read the play. Make introductions the make himself nearly invisible she wanted point she could have it. He really truly hated the questions they’d have to ask. The probing they’d have to do especially the last few that were designed to provoke a response. That was where most failed. If they mad eth least threatening response they’d be relegated at best to another year. At worst an execution order could be made out for them. Sometimes he hated his job.

[Monica Davis-banks walker]

She caught that and smirked but nodded. Still each gate they went through made ants bite along her spine more and more. She took a deep breath centered and let them close the last behind her with out panic.

Following him to medical she kept focus despite tge sounds she heard from elsewhere. Howls snarls screams, it was overwhelming until she focused in her heartbeat. Making that the loudest thing.

As they reached the heavy door to the room Monica felt her behind the door but would need to see to confirm the lioness she was feeling.