"This is a very good point. I've got New York under my jurisdiction, and that's comfortable for me. Four days, one big, happy city? That's a new record. But I don't want to look like I'm a warrior king. I want to give them safety. Living in disjointed hives like they are just won't last." He'd seen how that wound up in the middle ages, and he wasn't going to let it happen again. That was the reason they even had laws. That's how they put a vampire into papal power then. Those dark years didn't simply settle well for him, or any vampire.