Mm, "Who, exactly, were the monsters here?" has always kind of been the theme of the whole "10th of Floréal" incident.

>> The artist blinked in surprise. "Ah, of course!" he said. "Well. I may be the first painter
>> in Paris to have his work used as an official form of identification. That's quite a
>> distinction."
>
>... Am I getting this right? That in addition to the portraits going back
> to Scarlet Manor, they'll take photos of them to use on the ID cards?

Yup! That's the plan.

>O.o And here I thought you were going to pass on the more
>metamystical side of that.

Pass up a good ghost story, in a series about vampires and witches? I did mod it a bit from the original suggestion, in that the shop is quite real, it's just that it was (from a mundane perspective, anyway) empty the whole time. (That's why it's so dusty and forlorn--not because business is bad in the rebuilding period, because the shop's been abandoned since the summer of 1940.)

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