Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20160406152407/@comment-5543592-20160406194129

Crimson frowned, looking down at Anita's corpse. It was lain out on the grass, a sickly pale color, a bloody gash in the neck.

"You found her like this?" Crimson asked.

"Not me." Heartbender replied. "Others.  But they did not distrub the body aside from carry it here."

"What's this mean to me?  She died.  I don't like it much, but people die in fights."

"The woman.  Celia."

"Nice lips." Crimson muttered to himself, absently.

"Huh?"

"What?  Oh, just noting that she, you know, had good lips and all."

Heartbender watched him with a flat stare, to which Crimson grinned.

"Yes, well, the woman, Celia." Heartbender gestured to other of the bodies they had lain out on the lawn. "Suffered from the same wound."

Crimson pondered this for a moment, bringing a finger to his lips as he observed the Bosmer woman's corpse. She really had been pretty hot.

"They both look like someone tore into them." Crimson finally said.

Heartbender tightened his face into a grimace. "Vampire."

Crimson knew only of one of those in the area. He'd have to ask Naomi why she'd murdered one of their allies.

"What else do you have for me?"

Heartbender motioned for Crimson to join him as they walked around the manor's property "We found Forks." He told Crimson.

"Dead?"

Crimson just grimaced. "I'll have to tell his wife then.  She's traveling with the main group."

"It is how we found his body that was curious."

They came to an open patch of grass, near a garden and a shed.

"Forks lay here." Heartbender gestured to a spot. There was still a sitting pool of blood. "And the Oakvale patriarch?  He lay here." Heartbender gestured to a second spot on the grass.

"A knife he carried in his hand was of the same kind that was embedded in Forks' throat."

"So he had been following him?"

"Yes.  But we ordered Forks inside the manor through the front entrance.  We are at the estate's back."

It began to dawn on Crimson. "He found the women."

"He did."

Crimson nodded, before smiling. "Meaning they got out.  Forks died and they're what killed Kane. So they're alive.  Just hiding."

"There is also this." Heartbender nodded to the strange burn marking in the grass a little further away. "I do not know what it is.  No one does.  The grass is sodden, yet there appears to have been a controlled blaze."

Crimson shook his head. "There was no fire, we would've seen the smoke."

"Yes.  So then what left this?"

"That's a good question.  The question we should probably ask Diana and lot if they ever show their darn faces."