The Silver City Night Watcher branch was ready to be established. Silver Moon’s provincial government sent out official letters and posted documents on July 28, readying the formation of a new Night Watcher branch.7

Other cities were both envious and admiring. Of the thirty-two cities in the province, only nine possessed Night Watcher branches. Silver City would be the tenth. There were limited numbers of Night Watchers in the province; they were mostly concentrated in the big cities. White Moon contained a population of thirty million and Flare more than ten. It used to be that five million inhabitants were the baseline consideration for creating a branch.1

Population size was a very important condition to be met. Branches were typically not considered for cities that were too small, out of concern that the agency would be spreading their resources too thin and opening themselves up to defeat by supernatural organizations.0

A Night Watcher branch in Silver City was a jaw-dropping, unprecedented occurrence. The branch was ultimately approved out...5