It was one thing to suggest the unnatural, another to outright say it as though there was no easy way around it. What made it all worse was that, for all intents and purposes, at the moment it appeared that was the most "reasonable" conclusion. That notion did not sit well with Carver, even visibly so. The man switched his arms and the manner in which they were crossed as he let Chris do his job, giving the rest of his assessment; he wasn't one to interrupt, especially a volatile cocktail of emotional issues like that man radiated. Either way, the entire ambience of the evidence room seemed to change, as though everyone was equally shy and or ashamed of having thought or even said it aloud. It was absurd, plain and simple.

Carver gave another nod when Chris finished, but it was Piper who upped the ante. She seemed a bit off about the whole thing and her forced laugh made it more uncomfortable of a subject matter to focus on.

[i]"What, like fucking vampires?"[/i]

"Regularly I would say you're out of your mind, talking about vampires, and trust me when I say I still think that's the craziest answer possible... but the issue I take more with it has to be the fact that it does [i]appear[/i] that way." Carver spoke as plainly as ever, adjusting his darkly tinted glasses.

He kept a straight face through it all, the unsettling kind that lent some imagination that he thought this would be the outcome or worse. It could almost be more surprising he was so serious about this as well - as though he too might legitimately believe that's the answer. But he wasn't done yet, for as he finished with the sunglasses, he removed a small flipbook of notes from the buttoned pocket of his pants' thigh. Briefly he thumbed through it, not adding anything else, but came to a stop; there were [i]pages[/i] worth of tiny scrawled notes. The handwriting was barely legible, but the point got across.

"Has anything like this ever happened before that either of you know of?" The man looked up from his notes, drawing a clipped pen from his forward pocket.

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