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"Well, everyone has introduced themselves, so I suppose we should get down to business. I'm sure you all will know each other more on the job. Let's move our conversation upstairs to my office. Bring the cakes if you want," Leonardo said after Sunny finished speaking.
He then turned to Keith, "We'll get out of your hair now, Keith," he said, before heading upstairs, gesturing for his new employee to follow him.
The stairs led to a small area, where two doors could be seen, one directly to the front, greeting visitors directly from the 1st floor, and the other one to the left. Both seemingly led to different parts of the 2nd floor.
The door in the front had a sign reading 'Sidereal Agency'. Leonardo opened the door to a cosy modern office space, with some decorative plants here and there.
Over at the corner was what appeared to be a small kitchen area equipped with an electric stove. Given a simple coffee machine and the various tea leaves and paraphernalia used to brew tea, it was clear which one the owner of the office favoured in the debate between coffee and tea.
Finally, beside a window, a work desk in front of shelves of documents had a laptop on top of it could be seen, with some other papers neatly stacked beside the laptop. It seemed to be Leonardo's workspace. Not far from it, there were couches and sofas around a table that had a pot of tea, common condiments, and some cups on it.
"Have a seat," Leonardo gestured to the sofa.
"Now then," he began, "I'm sure that you already have a good idea what sort of work we do here, but to be clear, so there's no misunderstanding, while on the surface we are a detective agency taking on weird occult cases, our real world is more like fixers or consultants. We take 'cases' from basically everyone. Of course, if it's too dangerous or something that would have the DoM come down on us, I'd just straight up reject those jobs. But aside from that, as long as the pay is good, we'll offer our services. Private clients are a given, but this also includes the occasional jobs from the Church, American Mystic Society, DoM and even the mafia. This next comparison isn't too flattering, but I suppose you can think of us as small-scale Pinkertons for the magecraft world in Millhaven."
Leonardo then took out his phone, "Give me a minute to create a chat group for us on Cipher."
Cipher, short for AetherCipher, was the chat application used by those involved in mystics, primarily in the States. Created by the American Mystics Society, it was a chat application encrypted with both conventional technology and Internet Magecraft.
A moment later, those whose phones were not set to silent received a notification sound.
"There, that should do it," Leonardo said.
A moment later, he sent a picture through the chat application.
"This is the client, Fatma Amari, 36. The request is concerning her child, Evan Amari, 14. Since last week, Evan told Fatma that a 'demonic entity' was talking to him. Because he had taken the divorce between his parents last year hard, Fatma thought it was just a psychological or psychiatric issue at first, but then, apparently, Evan was able to know what Fatma was thinking, which he said was because the demonic figure he saw told him. Then, after a few days, Evan was able to speak Arabic, a language he never studied. As before, Evan said that the demonic figure taught him how. Fatma is not a practising mage, but she came from a mage family in Egypt before immigrating here, so she's aware that true demonic possession is dangerous. However, given that the DoM has been... trigger-happy, shall we say, ever since that incident in Florida, Fatma is reluctant to contact them and risk Evan unless this is a real case of demonic possession. That's where we come in, she wanted us as consultants to determine the cause, whether it is true demonic possession or something else. Even if it is true demonic possession, Evan had not shown overt signs such as psychokinesis or enhanced strength or bodily mutation, the demon is far from mature, so it should be 'safe'," Leonardo made an air quotation with his hands on the word safe, before continuing, "Just don't do anything stupid like naming the demon and having it mature like that infamous priest from Florida, okay? Any questions?"
