05-30-2014, 11:38 PM
It is a waiting game. The forensic team takes some time to arrive and when they do they take more time to go about their tasks. Swabs of blood are taken above and below. Numbered cards with measurements for comparison are placed out and photographs are taken; not nearly as many as if there had been a body found, but there is blood and there is damage and there is a detective asking for them to be thorough.
After a time that detective, Detective Fuller (or so he has introduced himself in the meanwhile), walks her through the door and deeper into the crime scene.
It is then she will see the other doors and how they were overcome. Some, those weaker ones, are pried and pulled free. Strong armed. Perhaps by a crow bar? The stronger ones seem as if the doors where crushed, splintered, force exerted to batter them down just as above.
Up where she perhaps hasn't been before is a tiled corridor, rooms off each and into each of these rooms (no doors cry at Flood and tell him blood sorcery is here, usurper's artfulness is here; no thresholds and no objects), but at least one of these rooms has a number of file cabinets and boxes of books and papers. There is an attic up and away and the ladder is pulled down and up there are more papers and covered furniture. That's if Verna is allowed that far. It's a quick perusal she's allowed once the detective realizes- perhaps by her own admission or maybe her unsure gait- that she doesn't know this area very well. It's not where the most damage seems to have been done, in any case.
The police don't know about the missing staked vampire or whatever else was taken from attic, and in all likelihood neither does Verna.
What she knows about is in the basement. Down to where the strongest door fell, this time to a more evenly spread amount of force, like maybe it was tackled down by a trio of football linemen. Down to where the place is turned upside down, but not so much as it has been torn apart, innards exposed, equipment's metal casings turned to jagged metal and crystals and glass to smaller bits. The larger contents of the room- tables with computers on them- were simply overturned. Maybe hurled? Most of the damage is to the desktops, the supercomputer toppled and smashed on the floor, and the microscope picked up and slammed against the same floor like a guitar after a particularly shredding solo.
After a time that detective, Detective Fuller (or so he has introduced himself in the meanwhile), walks her through the door and deeper into the crime scene.
It is then she will see the other doors and how they were overcome. Some, those weaker ones, are pried and pulled free. Strong armed. Perhaps by a crow bar? The stronger ones seem as if the doors where crushed, splintered, force exerted to batter them down just as above.
Up where she perhaps hasn't been before is a tiled corridor, rooms off each and into each of these rooms (no doors cry at Flood and tell him blood sorcery is here, usurper's artfulness is here; no thresholds and no objects), but at least one of these rooms has a number of file cabinets and boxes of books and papers. There is an attic up and away and the ladder is pulled down and up there are more papers and covered furniture. That's if Verna is allowed that far. It's a quick perusal she's allowed once the detective realizes- perhaps by her own admission or maybe her unsure gait- that she doesn't know this area very well. It's not where the most damage seems to have been done, in any case.
The police don't know about the missing staked vampire or whatever else was taken from attic, and in all likelihood neither does Verna.
What she knows about is in the basement. Down to where the strongest door fell, this time to a more evenly spread amount of force, like maybe it was tackled down by a trio of football linemen. Down to where the place is turned upside down, but not so much as it has been torn apart, innards exposed, equipment's metal casings turned to jagged metal and crystals and glass to smaller bits. The larger contents of the room- tables with computers on them- were simply overturned. Maybe hurled? Most of the damage is to the desktops, the supercomputer toppled and smashed on the floor, and the microscope picked up and slammed against the same floor like a guitar after a particularly shredding solo.