Artemis is perfectly capable of covering the rear exit with glue arrows. I was going to have Raquel in reserve above the building, but that seems… Unnecessary. On the other hand, asking her where she'd prefer to be isn't how things are done.
To be honest, even a Lantern is overkill here unless something starts trouble..
I mean, given Dakota I imaged that drug trafficking right up her street.
I mean, given Dakota I
imagined that drug trafficking right up her street.
If any crimes are happening in there, the presence of police is going to be more than scary enough without me crashing around.
You hope.
I head over to the desk as she smiles welcomingly-. No, invitingly at me. The desk and the seating behind it are set up to draw the eye to the receptionist's spectacular cleavage. When her eyes meet mine I surreptitiously fish my rune stone out of its pouch and glance down at it. Weakly demonic. Probably a minor infusion of essence of succubus for a cheap instant makeover and instinctive glamour, which thanks to the spell eater is doing nothing to me. Are people cutting DMN with things now? The version Satanus was handing out when we first encountered it gave far stronger effects than this. Or maybe they don't think that they need it?
I suppose it works to weaken guests' minds. Even if the 'spectacular cleavage' alone is enough to do that without magic
-she tries turning it up again, her right hand going for her desk telephone. I tag the phone with a filament and move it into my left hand, then take a mage slayer round out of subspace, lean forward and tap the tip of it against her forehead. The tiny runes on the round shimmer for an instant, then her chest deflates, minor instances of discolouration appear on her skin and the structure of her face becomes just a little more asymmetrical.
I'm guessing the effects are too weak to affect the mage slayer itself.
"When I say 'please don't do that', I'm not actually offering you a free choice, I'm just being British." I put the rune stone and round into an equipment pouch, because the round is now evidence. "Would you care to explain to me how you got access to demonic magic?"
Huh, conscientious.
I scan her, but I'm not seeing any weapons or vials of DMN and a quick burst of empathic vision doesn't show anything relating to fighting.
With that much yellow? I doubt it.
"Huh. Guess I assumed that you guys could do whatever."
No, that would have people up in arms over abuse of power or such.
I would action your request as you're the ranking police officer, but I would strongly advise-."
Unsure is intentional or should it be '
act on'
...I'm going to have to ask you answer a few questions.
...I'm going to have to ask
you to answer a few questions.
"What? I was just getting a massage?"
He seems unsure of that...
His face falls, and he turns his head to look at his masseuse and then double-takes and scrambles off the massage table, sans towel.
Oh, yikes. I hope he was wearing underwear...
