1 - I think it better in times like these...

[cujothebigreddog]

[Hendricks has been doing his backreading. Strange days. He wonders how common they are. ...and look, people are the same all over, from any culture or technology level. He's not surprised that the Stanford Prisoner Experiment was invoked recently, although he's more surprised that on the balance, there isn't general rule by the more literally super-powered. That's something worth having some renewed faith in.

Also he's going to have to pay attention to the rights of non-humans-- the vampires here aren't the Black court scourges or the White court soul eaters he's used to and he has to be better than preconceptions to do this job. He'll have to figure out how to talk to the local werewolf about what form her theriomorphy takes, because she seems to be halfway between a Lycanthrope and a Werewolf in the terms of his universe.

He thinks all that and he says:]

Hey. Name's Hendricks. I'm from Chicago. New warden.

Nice to meetcha.

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[cujothebigreddog]

Like the letter or like Mary?

[most_feared]

Like the letter. [Smoothly. Like he's gotten this question before.]

[cujothebigreddog]

[A nod.]

Nice suit. Fed?

[most_feared]

Eh. [He makes a so-so motion with his hand. He kind of is. Kind of isn't. You know. Complicated.]

[cujothebigreddog]

Got it.

[He knows.]

[most_feared]

Your job?

[cujothebigreddog]

Personal assistant. My boss is in property management.

[most_feared]

Probably taking a hit in this economy. Well, guess it depends on when you're from.

[cujothebigreddog]

2011. Not a good year for anyone, but we're doing okay.

[It was a good year for some people, or at least a less-bad year. Despair drives the sales of drugs, the paraphernalia of violence, other things. Not an arm of John's business that Hendricks approves of, but one he recognizes is better regulated by them then left to independent free market types.]