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This guy was a fucking moron. Max hoped he wouldn't have to follow this clown back to the station for more questioning or anything asinine like that. How hard was it to sneak an anonymous letter to Ryner? He had a few choice words on how much of a joke her police force was. 

[color=8585ad]"That'd be me,"[/color] Max raised his hand to make a point, [color=8585ad]"I was going for a walk and smelled something weird so I went to take a look."[/color] Not a complete lie, but it wasn't like how he ended up back there was any of this guard's business. [color=8585ad]"She was like this when I arrived, but there was a glowing rune on one of her hand and she was holding this,"[/color] He fished the bit of cloth out of his jacket pocket and presented it to the guard, [color=8585ad]"I went to find Eris and when I came back she'd dropped it and the rune was gone."[/color]

There were sirens going off already, which meant the murderer was probably tipped off that someone had found their handiwork. The situation could go any number of ways from there, but Max really didn't want to stick around and find out. If the culprit actually was suicidal, there's no reason they might not just turn to wholesale slaughter in the ballroom to have as much fun as they can before they're inevitably killed. It'd save them from a potentially more painful punishment after a trial, after all. On the other hand, if the murderer had some political connection to get away with it, having his name associated with the crime might just paint a fat target on his head. 

Now he'd have to start talking to Eris about buying weaponry and self-defense and he'd probably get thrown into more stupid swordplay classes. Hopefully with a teacher that was less of a hack than the Retriever. That, or start finding creative ways to hide forks on his person; the one up his sleeve was getting annoying. 

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