Chapter 29: The Four Factions
*Mika*
“This situation is a lot, but I’ll try,” Reginald replied, giving a shrug. He reached up and stroked his beard, no doubt trying to think of the best way to explain this stuff to me. I didn’t doubt this was a whole mess, given to me, this was a whole new world. I leaned forward in my chair toward him, the soft light of the room calming, at least. Actually, the lighting being very soft or dim was typical of this manor. I wondered if it was because shifters and vampires were nocturnal, or something.
“Let’s see,” the shifter began. “I’ll start with the faction Percival is of high rank on. Faction Midnight. They are a faction of vampires, and some shifters, who are tired of hiding and see it as necessary to reveal the ‘Paranormal World’ to humans. However, in their eyes, it needs to be slow. We’d need to gain a lot of political power prior to any sort of big reveal so humans would not take pitchforks and torches to us.”