08-24-2016, 09:46 PM
There was a moment of tired contemplation on Captain Aleksandrov's features as Dorian displayed the tattoos on his arms. Naturally, police officers were required to have yearly physical examinations, and identifying features such as tattoos or birth marks were recorded on file. Partly in case of charges being laid against a police officer, partly for ease of identification should said officer have been so grievously disfigured as to have to rely on such an outdated technique.
So he had been aware of the tattoos, but had had no reason to attribute them to Dorian's self-revealed Atharim connection. The fact that the man had, on his own volition, provided a list of names that Domovoi could work with to start finding and, hopefully, protecting magic-users the Atharim were already aware of, had already earned him some credit in Aleksandrov's books. That he would go so far as to openly out himself at the table, in front of most of Domovoi, spoke further in the man's favor.
"We start with finding these people. The self-registration site has been running into some trouble lately. Hackers spamming the system, because they don't understand the danger these people could be in right now. Not just from the Atharim, but from family and friends as well. Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivator to commit terrible acts. I have no interest in going to war with the Atharim. None. But I will not allow them to wantonly execute people for things they COULD do."
He looked to Dr Pirozzi, "I am not fond of the old American prison system. Incarceration for the sake of punishment and profit. Rehabilitation is key. And that cannot be achieved if a magic-user must spend their entire sentence, or their entire life, sedated in a straight-jacket. We need to find another way to inhibit the use of their powers. Otherwise, people will start suggesting a deep hole and a bullet."
It was just a matter of time before someone higher in the bureaucracy of the CCD's government, namely someone linked to the Ascendancy himself, would pass down a mandate to the police, and to Domovoi likely, on how to deal with magic users. But in the mean time, they needed to establish as much groundwork as they could, as quickly as they could. At least in part to justify their existence.
So he had been aware of the tattoos, but had had no reason to attribute them to Dorian's self-revealed Atharim connection. The fact that the man had, on his own volition, provided a list of names that Domovoi could work with to start finding and, hopefully, protecting magic-users the Atharim were already aware of, had already earned him some credit in Aleksandrov's books. That he would go so far as to openly out himself at the table, in front of most of Domovoi, spoke further in the man's favor.
"We start with finding these people. The self-registration site has been running into some trouble lately. Hackers spamming the system, because they don't understand the danger these people could be in right now. Not just from the Atharim, but from family and friends as well. Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivator to commit terrible acts. I have no interest in going to war with the Atharim. None. But I will not allow them to wantonly execute people for things they COULD do."
He looked to Dr Pirozzi, "I am not fond of the old American prison system. Incarceration for the sake of punishment and profit. Rehabilitation is key. And that cannot be achieved if a magic-user must spend their entire sentence, or their entire life, sedated in a straight-jacket. We need to find another way to inhibit the use of their powers. Otherwise, people will start suggesting a deep hole and a bullet."
It was just a matter of time before someone higher in the bureaucracy of the CCD's government, namely someone linked to the Ascendancy himself, would pass down a mandate to the police, and to Domovoi likely, on how to deal with magic users. But in the mean time, they needed to establish as much groundwork as they could, as quickly as they could. At least in part to justify their existence.