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A Public Functionary

Autor: Juno Sparks
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-03-04 10:02:51

POV: Vampire Bureaucrat | Parliament Administrative Office, Whitehall

The office of Supernatural Regulatory Affairs occupied the third floor of a building that looked like a solicitor's firm from the street, which was intentional. The humans who worked in the building below never came up to the third floor. The lock on the stairwell door ensured that, along with a mild compulsion ward that made anyone who touched the handle suddenly remember something urgent they needed to do elsewhere.

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