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Laura was amused by the playing cards. She wondered about the powers, but let it drop for now.
Would the BPRD take him? Probably. She'd been hired on the spot the day she finished high school. She'd gotten her degrees since then from various places. He could do the same, although he looked a bit young to have finished high school. His powers would certainly make him a boon agent for the bureau
She asked him, "Have you ever heard of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense?"

Laura smiled, and fished through an inside pocket of her coat for a moment. Her firearm flashed in wen some lighting winked in the sky. She produced an official-looking badge, much like the ones belonging to FBI agents, except the insignia was different- a hand holding a sword. The card next to it had her photo and her name, birthday, license to drive cars, semis, buses, and motorcycles, carry a concealed firearm, et cetera.
"I'm Laura O'Doughertai. BPRD Life-Form Containment and Retrieval Specialist. It's good to meet you, Iggy." She offered her hand to shake.

"Yep, we exist," Laura said, "But so do all he critters that go bump in the night. You would not believe the amount of crap I put up with from Fey. You know what the fairies call me? 'O'Doughertai the Buzzkiller' because I'm the one who always has to break up their parties."
She sighed. "We operate in near secret conditions because, honestly, people freak out when something out of the ordinary comes knocking. They see something in the sky they don't recognize and they freak out.
"I'm telling you this because you're paranormal, and you belong with us. They might not hire you right off the bat, but they're pretty good about letting people live there."

"Everyone belongs somewhere," Laura said calmly. "Follow me, I'll show you where they hide it... if you really want to go."

"Come with me then... I guess we're going home in the rain. It's only a few miles to HQ."
Laura's next step was to call it in. She pulled out her cell phone and made the call. "Enhanced talents. Younger male. Yeah. No. Transmutation. Yeah I know. Alright. Good. Thanks."
She hung up and said to Izzy as they walked, "They'll have a room set up for you by the time we're there, and you can raid the fridge if you like."

"Not a problem. But I should tell you now that if you want to get hired on there's a lot of paperwork. Really the only thing to get used to is weird animals, ghosts, the like. You'd be surprised how much of field work comes down to actually figuring out what sort of spook or monster is causing all the trouble." Laura laughed. She liked telling stories, and if she could educate a new recruit while she was weaving her tales. She continued, "Just before I met you, I was in Wales. People were complaining about their sheep getting eaten, and it took me almost two days to realize it was a water leaper who'd been coming out of its pond to eat them.
"But tell me more about you... you mentioned something called the Whammy house...?"

"I've seen winged horses, winged frogs, winged everything, but never an angel," Laura admitted. "Although, this guy I know, he's in his eighties now, says that back in the thirties, some guy invented this thing called a vril fork. Some invention to harness the power of angels. I looked for it in books, but it's pretty much nowhere." She sighed, a little sad that she hadn't learned as much as she wanted to about something.
She stopped in front of a waste disposal facility. "It's here," she said to Izzy.
Laura approached a box. "O'Doughertai and ETA2B."
"Yeah, sure," cracked a voice from the box. While the gates popped open. "You're clear."

Laura paused just inside the gate after he grabbed her. "Yeah, Vril Fork. It's supposed to look like a tuning fork or something. Why?"