[Video]

[detectivedwloki]

[It's showing as video but at first the screen is blank and pitch black. Then some scuffling sounds can be heard, along with a string of muttered swearing. Finally, with a thud, the picture shifts as the device is lifted up and Detective Loki's frowning face is staring at the screen. It takes him a few seconds to notice it's recording. More muttered swearing before he addresses the camera.]

So this... apocalyptic world ending ... This is a normal kind of thing for some of you?

Like the Fates being real. Zombies. Superhuman powers. All of that...

I don't come from that sort of world. The only monsters are human ones, with no special powers. Still, they can treat others so inhumanely it would give you nightmares as bad as what we've seen the past month...

[He rubs his face, blinking rapidly a few times then goes on grimly.]

Anyone else finding all of this difficult to adjust to?

Having powers? Dealing with supernatural cataclysms?

[He sighs and tries to look less stressed. It doesn't work and there's more unnatural-looking blinking before he shakes his head and cuts the connection.]

Comments

[detectivedwloki]

It's a tough call but unfortunately such decisions have to be made.

In my job I've had to make very quick decisions. Protecting the innocent is a priority.

[hordinglife]

You know, a lot of you say that, but there's no such thing. Innocence just means you didn't commit the crime that someone else is committing at the time.

[At least that's what Lonnie has come to understand from everything she's looked up. People break the rules, break the "law" and do a lot of things they aren't supposed to all the time. But somehow they're called "innocent" whenever someone else does something worse at the time. It reminds her too much of how Princesses talk about "innocent people" when there's a war going on.]

[detectivedwloki]

Innocence may be relative. If you want to call it something else, let's say I uphold the law.

[hordinglife]

Sure. The law of a country that we didn't ask to be forced into.

[She really is trying to understand this, but it's just so far from her own context.]

[detectivedwloki]

Where are you from?