Hello Grandmother,

I’ve been granted a reprieve from working for the vampire bureaucracy. I guess they feel they got what they needed out of me. Thankfully, it didn’t involve draining any of my blood. I’ve been thinking about the mirror we found yesterday, the one hidden in Jakob’s library. I’ve been thinking about who could have put it there. Did Jakob have a contingence plan? Was there someone who he had a deal with to prevent the vampires from getting it? Had he sold off the last of his treasures in case of his death? And what was so terribly important about his art pieces anyways?

It would require someone with power and someone who could move about the city in secret. Someone who could break in to the lair of an Illuminati chief and escape unnoticed. It wasn’t a vampire. Is there a robot power strong enough? Could it have been the Alternate? I really don’t know that much about who the Alternate is. The rumor is that it was designed over a hundred years ago, making it one of the first robots. Over the last few decades, the Alternate has become the première designer of advances in robot cognitive processors. It has built a network of distribution, becoming almost a monopoly over the spread of robot consciousness across the western United States.

The Alternate has been instrumental in negotiating a partial truce between the vampire hegemony and the robot masses. Just by standardizing robot’s operating systems, it has made the group easier to manage. But what if it is all a ruse? Is the Alternate just preparing for war? When every side is keeping secrets from everyone else, it may be impossible to tell until it’s too late.

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