The Night Faculty

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Dear Readers,


   Since I've been kind of dry and informational of late, I want to move away from that a little and give you a bit more information about how things work here at the University of Constantinople.

   The University is at such a strange level of temporal dynamics and technology as to be a near-mystical place.  It's often to tell where the technology ends and the spookiness begins.  More on this spookiness next week, you can be sure.

 
    Your spooky quotient for today will be filled by the concept of the Night Faculty.  No doubt, the idea has crossed a few of your minds that there might be an entire other society in the places that you live, societies that operate when you are sleeping, full of people who are on a different shift and with whom you never interact.  Perhaps, even, they have their own businesses, storefronts which shutter just as your eyes flutter to begin the next day.

 
   Here at the University, I know there is just such a set of people.  The Night Faculty are a group of people whose cultures or biology leave them unable to operate during the day, as most of us do.  Either they are from time streams where evolution has produced something like vampires, or they learned to exist in a nocturnal culture, or any of many other reasons.


   That might seem "freaky" or "creepy" to any of you, that in thenight there might be people who you never see that wander the halls of your workplace.  For me it is a matter of great comfort.  There is always worry that we will be attacked by some other ex-temporal force, especially the Puppeteers.  To know that at all times, our halls are stalked by creatures of daydream and nightmare is to know that we are at all times safe.


   More on the Night Faculty next week.


   Always,

   Dr. John Skylar

   Chairman
   Department of Anachronism
   University of Constantinople