"I don't know," Issac suddenly added; he had been investigating the area opposite of where Gabriel was, with similar levels of success. He turned to look at the others. "We know that there was some sort of death here based on the blood smell, but we haven't been able to find a body. Doesn't that suggest that the areas were the smell is the strongest was the sight of the murder, and that the body was moved to a different location than this room?"
Standing up, Taber scratched his head. "That's a lot of effort for a murder," he said, staring around at the blank walls of the room. "We're in a secret room that's a part of another secret room that's part of an abandoned building. If you're going to kill somebody here, why not just leave the body lying around? And it smells like it was recent, so where's the killers? What's the point to any of this?"
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
"If I was a murderer," Gabriel mused from his corner. "I'd take the body and stash it in some hidden location."
"This is the hidden location," Sebastian argued, gesturing at the room around them. No one was supposed to find a place like this. At least, that's what he had thought. Maybe it was just a diversion of some sort? That would be bizarre, but they dealt with bizarre things.
"I think we might be missing the big picture," Issac quietly said, joining the group in the center of the room. He looked at the room around them, slipped his hands into his pockets and looked back at the others. "Even if we find the body, that's not going to help much. We need to figure out who was here, and what they wanted with the person who died."
Cornyx scoffed. "The police? This obviously isn't a mundane matter. They wouldn't know how to deal with something like this."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Bo wanted to respond, to argue, and to continually insist common sense, but he knew at this point the response he would get would be unanimous disagreement. Everyone else was apparently out of his league, and far more capable to deal with whatever supernatural or spooky matters they had stumbled upon, and he was just a [semi]regular guy with some guns.
He sighed.
"I mean, if you say so," he muttered under his breath.
Gabriel cracked his knuckles. "We're the best bet you've got to dealing with this," he said, his mouth stretching open into a smile that consisted of all pointed teeth.
Sebastian shot a glare in Gabriel's direction when he saw what he was doing. "Stop that," he hissed, trying to keep his voice as low as possible.
Gabriel shrugged. "What? I'm just emphasizing a point."
Taber shook his head. "Don't worry," he said to Bo, "I've seen plenty of gross things, and I'm still okay, so we should be fine hanging around here! I'm not really sure what 'police' are, and it'd be cool if they were good guys, but we have each other." He looked around and smiled, showing off a set of teeth that easily outmatched Gabriel's. As such, he didn't put much thought into why a human would have teeth like that.
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
"Don't worry," Gabriel said, going over to where Bo was and slinging his arm around his shoulder. Sebastian groaned; Bo had been towering above Gabriel before, but now Gabriel was almost the same height as him. He was definitely adding a few inches to his guise. "We're professionals. We've dealt with all sorts of deadly things before, and nothing bad's ever come out of it. Well, except that time Sebastian ended up in the hospital but, hey, happens the best of us."
Bo pulled away slightly from Gabriel's arm, looking him up and down with eyebrows drawn together and forehead creased. Gabriel had not been that tall a moment ago.
"Well, it's not like I could say yes to something like that," Gabriel said, still keeping his arm around Bo's shoulder. Cue Sebastian inevitably groaning again, because that was one of the few things they had agreed to keep secret from the people that they met during their travels. "Oh, come on, Sebby! We've got the king of hell and a werewolf here! What's the harm in adding a demon or two-"
"Djinni," Issac quietly corrected.
Gabriel's expression immediately softened. "-djinni or two into the mix?"
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