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[overboarded]

"This is Simon, you know what to do."

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[overboarded]

Ha ha.

["Laughed" dryly. It does obscure the view a little, but he can still see quite a lot.]

... so this guy was gouged open by fangs and claws, yet the only real blood is right where they found him? No one thought that was weird? There should be tons of splatter from the force it would have taken for something to make those wounds.

[And that door...]

I thought you said they did a thorough job, Harrow. Thorough job taking pictures and patting themselves on the back?

[drsolipsism]

[ Harrow chuckles, stepping away from the door and back into the apartment, not wanting to linger too long where he could be seen. ]

Oh not thorough by our standards. [ He's back at the broken coffee table again. ] They started to go on about monsters and all the reasons the blood might have been drained or cleaned or — well, it was a lot.

[ Basically, they had every excuse. Every reason. An answer to every concern Harrow raised. He doesn't know enough about monsters yet, but no matter how much sense their explanations made with the added monster context, he couldn't ignore the blatant staging of the crime scene. But what does he know! He's just a newbie who talks too much! ]

The problem is, they're so keen to blame it on a monster, staged or not, when they should be looking for a human.

[overboarded]

Blood drained... did you find any marks that would indicate that? I didn't see any in the pictures, but I wasn't exactly looking for it either.

[God, blood drained. What? Like a vampire? He wants to scoff, but he has WINGS so. Yeah.]

Look monster or not, someone is trying to cover up and stage this to look like what it isn't. Could be some monster trying to hide it's identity too. Who knows.

[A pause, then he remembers oh right-]

... think there's any knives in the kitchen that might match these wounds?

[drsolipsism]

Around the neck, barely noticeable with all the bruising and lacerations. Still not convinced.

[ Harrow has done so much scoffing on his first day alone, much to the irritation of literally everyone. So many new variables to consider, new things to learn in order to adjust to this world. He won't lie though...it's interesting. ]

But you're right, someone went through a lot of trouble making this look like something it isn't. Of course, what do I know?

[ Yes, he's salty. But anyway, good idea, time to go look at some knives! Just have to step over some mess here and there — it's like someone panicked and tried to make everything look as unnecessarily messy as possible. Unless there was some grand scuffle that happened all over the apartment.]

...Whoever did this certainly didn't plan ahead. [ In the kitchen now, his gloves already on, he looks around, making sure to turn enough so Simon can get a decent view as well.

There's a knife block, but it's empty, so he opts to search some of the drawers, hoping one of them is going to hold something useful. While he's doing that... ] Good to be back, isn't it?

[overboarded]

[Harrow has every right to be salty, a baby could tell this wasn't what it looked like.]

Bruising and lacerations around the neck... so then it's not a strangling? Made to look like a violent attack. Draining blood does seem pretty extra.

[The sound of gloves being put on is music to his ears.]

Someone is trying to frame a vampire and a werewolf all in one apparently.

[At the question though Simon smiles a little. He never was gone, at least, not for him. For Harrow though Simon has been gone for a while now back home, so to him this must be like the 'good ol' times'.]

Maybe a little. [That knife block being empty though does catch his attention.] Wanna bet they got rid of the knives after using them? Check the dumpster outside maybe?