Fast Changes. Bonus: 'Send Your Voice'

"Quick Changes"—Three tall towers, a considerable number of additional buildings, an extensive territory around, and underground floors stretching far, far into the depths of Moscow—this is what the Castle, the palace, and the fortress of the Great House Chud looked like. The stronghold of the Order—one of the three main families of the Secret City. They didn’t lay claim to the proud title of “skyscraper” for the towers—the height wasn’t enough—but they looked stylish, absolutely modern constructions: steel, glass, and concrete. Outside. But inside, most rooms were finished entirely in accordance with the conservative tastes of knights—wood and stone. On the walls—tapestries and weapons, heavy bronze lamps, and in some corridors and rooms—torches. Under which, one could sometimes notice a knight bustling with a smartphone. The Chuds, like most residents of the Secret City, were conservatives but not fools: they kept traditions, yet didn’t refuse modern technologies.

“Send your voice…” The Secret City… Secret Moscow—a place inhabited by descendants of ancient races, among whom there are powerful mages, great warriors, experienced traders, clever thieves, bloodsuckers, werewolves, keepers of treasures, rat catchers, genius doctors… And there are also the all-too-constant Red Riding Hoods. And it just so happened that, in their uneasy little family, elections unexpectedly took place…