9 creatures, from the smallest up.
Ink Slimes are what happens when a pot is knocked over and nobody fills in the form to say so. They go where the paper is. The clerks mop them up with blotters and tell each other it is nothing.
Quill Hawks moult their own pens. The clerks keep the good ones and sharpen them, and a quill hawk will follow a clerk for days to see what is written with its feathers.
A Paper Wraith is a file that was never closed. It keeps every page it ever held in order, and it does not like them being read out of it.
Sundial Sentries were dials once, and still turn their faces toward the sun. Their shadows point at whoever they mean to hit, which is fair of them, really.
Red Ink Slimes live in the Mint, where the red ink is kept for what is owed. Step in one and you will find red footprints on your floor for a week, all of them pointing back at you.
Tally-Wraiths count. Four marks and a line through, four marks and a line through, over everything they touch. The Mint apprentices say they are the minutes somebody rounded off, come back to be counted properly.
Mint Sentries stamp. They stamp coins, they stamp dawns, and if you stand still near one long enough they will stamp you, very neatly, with the date.
Tap one to read its box. You have been warned.
The Overdue was a filing cabinet in the Halls. One night it walked out of its row, and it has been overdue ever since. Every drawer in it is full of reminders addressed to itself.
Nobody in the Office has seen the Auditor and wanted to see it again. It comes when an account will not balance. It is very thorough, and it is never in a hurry, because it is never late.
Check a creature's weakness before you swing. Hitting a Mossling with Ember is rude, but effective, lu.