Aiden Shepard [ Abraham Van Helsing ] (arcere) wrote in bellumlogs,
No kidding. Aiden was still working on paying his off, and figured he'd probably be doing it until the day he died. Every dollar he had to hand over to them was long-suffering and bloody, he was absolutely sure. But it had gotten him through graduate school.
Admirable pursuits! I myself was a doctor and a lawyer, as I'm sure you well know, among many other noble professions ...
Aiden ignored the sudden arrival of Van Helsing's not-particularly-interesting history of jobs and thought instead on Archer's question. So. What happened in 1929? In Chicago, or at least in America ...
"We haven't hit the Depression yet, so that's at least one thing going right." His eyes fixed on something invisible on the floor. "Most of the really interesting stuff happened in Europe and the Middle East, but ... there's going to be some problems happening, here in Chicago." Aiden gave Archer a careful look. "Let's avoid the gangsters while we're here, shall we?"