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[Getting no word from Henry or Maketh as demons are spawning in the city, Nick steps in.]

Guard, report in. Long story short in case you missed the memo: there are demons in the city.

[There's the sound of shuffling paper. He's been taking notes from what's come up on the network about these things.]

Inquisitor Trevelyan is closing the tears they're coming through, but until she gets to them all, it's our job to keep folks safe. Stick to your patrols, send word if you need backup, and if it comes right down to it, do what you need to do.

[He signs off with that. Time to keep trying to get a hold of the actual leaders of the Guard. Them being missing is not a good sign.]

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[More paper-shuffling. When you constantly monitors the network like this old bot does, you end up making a lot of notes, just in case of a crisis like this.]

Prevention sounds like the best policy. Word is they're most likely to make deals for a possession in your dreams, so if you're the type who has to sleep, that'd be one place to watch out for them.

[Assuming one can. Given what he is, Nick wouldn't know about how much control folks have over what they do in dreams.]

The main thing is that if you or someone else gets possessed, there's no cure. Not that I've heard of.

[Constant network-monitors are appreciated at times like these. With one of his successors currently in the throes of such a possession, L's admittedly had his hands a little full.]

That seems like an early call to make, and an undesirable one. Perhaps something can be done that's simply been overlooked up until this point.

Maybe, but that's what I'm hearing from the people who've dealt with these sorts of things before. If you've got any ideas, I suggest you bring it up with Inquisitor Trevelyan and her crew. See what they think.

Anyone can have ideas, but experience provides a valuable perspective. Admittedly, demon possession isn't experienced in every reality, and it's hardly uniform in the ones in which it does occur.

Have any of those possessed been successfully contained, to your knowledge?

Here, no. But if you mean ever, you're asking the wrong person. We've got some real monsters where I'm from, but nothing like this.

That's the first order of business, then. Getting some of the possessed individuals in captivity and then doing what's necessary to evaluate whether or not they can be freed of the influence or killing them is necessary.

The ordinary humans, sans powers to make it difficult, would probably be our best bets.

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