HiboCorp brings the government into the supernatural side of Grimm Fairy Tales. Once you have Highborns, magical weapons, and threats crossing into Earth, you also have the ques…

HiboCorp brings the government into the supernatural side of Grimm Fairy Tales. Once you have Highborns, magical weapons, and threats crossing into Earth, you also have the question of what the people running ordinary institutions are doing about it. The agency recruits people with unusual abilities to deal with those threats. Britney Waters works for it as Agent Red, and the Realm Knights are one of its specialized teams. Those names are connected, but HiboCorp is the larger organization around the operatives. That distinction matters because a team can be out dealing with a particular threat while the organization has information and plans the team doesn't fully control. The agents, scientists, and people giving instructions all occupy different places in that system. By the time Sela starts looking into the disappearances involving Highborns, HiboCorp has become something to question as well as something that's supposed to provide protection. What does the agency know? Who is deciding what gets kept secret? And do the people working for it actually agree with what it's doing? Ciampo helping the group trying to reach Sela gives that last question a specific person to look at. You can't necessarily judge every person in the organization by its public purpose, or assume that everyone is making the same choices.