"Somehow, I thought it'd be somethin' a little more high-minded," said Heiji, counting his blessings that he was not, in fact, a vampire. His qualifications would run more towards a keen mind, courage, care for one's subjects. The capacity for mercy, though certainly that didn't seem a highly-valued trait among the fae of London.

"I mean, you've got hundreds of years to come up with a really fancy charter, right?" Certainly the Night Council at least seemed to have a handful of rules to govern behavior, as much as Heiji didn't approve of some of them.