[ah, the west coast...one of the few parts of the country that she hadn't made her way to before getting yanked into literal hell. it makes her wonder briefly, not for the first time, if all that chatter about Hollywood vampires was more literal than most people realized.]

That one I can at least answer...or half-answer, assuming that shit works kind of the same way it did back home. A lot of creatures like this are fuckoff strong, right? But they've got rules they need to follow, or else they can't do jack shit.

[bureaucracy truly was an infernal creation, if you think about it the right way.]

Like, I'm not gonna be a completely cynical bitch and say that they're not planning on paying up when it comes time to spit out the reward...but it wouldn't surprise me if the contracts opened up a hole for them to actually use us for whatever the fuck it is they need.