"No one likes a surprise boss," said Heiji, "And I guess especially not vampires."

"Couple months back, an old vampire royal rolled into town. Set up shop in Greenwich, yeah? So a bunch of us pitched in to take her out. Didn't go down easy, either..." And ever since then, that area of Greenwich had been slowly recovering. He'd gotten a nifty trinket out of it, too, which he'd submitted to the King and Queen.