Hello Grandmother,

I knew that Richard III wasn’t in the trial to defend Kelly Burke; he was merely there to use the trial as an excuse to mock the Ministries. Nothing has more explicitly displayed this than his closing argument. In the wake of the Infiltration’s attack, he used his speaking time to place blame for the attack solely at the Ministries feet. In fact, he elaborated, claiming that an Infiltration would be impossible without the Ministries bureaucratic hiring practices that base involvement on merit and not on heredity. According to Richard, had the old Houses remained intact, the families would know when some mechanical creature tried to infiltrate their ranks. Of course, the vampire houses likely wouldn’t have been able to overthrow the Illuminati and take over the world in the first place, but I digress. The point in all this is, the vampire ministries have a lot more to worry about than just the infiltration. They’re going to have to prove themselves to their own ranks as well.

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