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Jacob Prestor's House

"Is there anything else you can tell me to describe this man? Was he tall? Fat? Look odd?" Ruby asked, prying the raven for more information. "I'm sure more fallen leaves will be around for you to collect soon once winter approaches us. Hope your female friends find you soon."
Soon after, she takes her leave back to the bus after conversing with the raven more. She had to warn Koln about this mysterious man that closely resembles him.

Ruby
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"Well, they weren't like any leaves I've ever had" the raven says. "They were like a bendy material, I found them in the bedroom. The ladies won't be able to resist my nest, I just know it!" the raven flies off into the night saying "nevermore" leaving you alone in Prestor's house. You figure the bus will be arriving fairly soon.
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Ruby
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"Well, they weren't like any leaves I've ever had" the raven says. "They were like a bendy material, I found them in the bedroom. The ladies won't be able to resist my nest, I just know it!" the raven flies off into the night saying "nevermore" leaving you alone in Prestor's house. You figure the bus will be arriving fairly soon.
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Ruby nods as she bolts back to the bus again. It is urgent that she must talk to Koln immediately. Even though she had enhanced speed, it felt like she still wasn't going fast enough.
 

Koln stops praying and turns to Clover, wincing at her comment that 'ignorance is bliss.' "The Church is not going to come after me, my brothers will. They will come to merely check up on me, but once they see... they'll know I failed them. I am not sure how they'll take it, probably pretty badly, and they'll definately go after and likely scapegoat you and Ruby.... I have been thinking about that too, faking my death. But how? It has to be convincing..."

Clover sat up straighter as though she had been struck by a pin. She hadn't expected that Koln would have been thinking the same thing. Though she did feel a little embarrassed that he had to correct her about who was coming after him.
Hm... what could he do to fake his own death?
As she thought, she drew her knees up to her chest and faced her desk. She began to ramble, merely getting her thoughts out in the open though not specifically talking to Koln:
"Yes, it has to be convincing. The church, or your brothers, would not believe it otherwise. But at the same time, we can't be stupid about this. I mean, yes you can stay deathly still. But it's not like we could stick you in a coffin or anything. They'd probably want to examine you. They'd see your teeth. Then they'd bury you. Do you think you could dig your way out? I don't know if Ruby and I would be able to help you. Either way, it probably isn't the best idea. But it's not like you could go missing, either. They would want to see your body. Besides, it's not like you hate your brethren. You would want to give them peace of mind, right? Hm... We need to think of a way for you to disappear and they would not go looking for physical evidence..."
The idea hit her like a brick to the head. She stood up so fast that she was sure she would have seriously startled anyone else and possibly given them a heart attack... were Koln not already un-dead.
Clover knelt on her chair, speaking quickly and excitedly. She could see it all so clearly!
"The fire! That fire at Prestor's house! They're still examining it, right? I wonder if they've gotten to the basement, yet? We should ask Ruby. But, what if they found some... Oh crap, I forgot you already talked to the church. They think you're alive..."
Clover crossed her arms and sunk down into into her chair like a stubborn child. How could she have missed that? Stupid, stupid...!
She grumbled almost inaudibly to herself, "Damnit, I forgot. It would have been so perfect, too! We could have pulled some teeth, maybe gone back and gotten the cross. Planted it in the basement. They would think you burned up in the fire. They can't test ash. No DNA testing for that. Suzie's mother died down there and burned up. At least we could have put the stuff next to her body. Human ash, at least. Geez. And here I really thought I had something...."
*grumble*

And I really did get excited when I started thinking about it. But then, I really was like "oh crap, that doesn't work..." >.<
 

Koln slowly stands and places his hat on the bed. He runs his hands over his face, straining to think. "They would not exhume my body, desecration of a corpse is something the Church does not do, it would prevent me rising from the dead on the Last Day. They might want to see a corpse get buried, but I doubt they would want an autopsy, it would be perfect if I could just lay still and be buried, but you and Ruby better dig me up or else."
 

The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round...

Ruby nods as she bolts back to the bus again. It is urgent that she must talk to Koln immediately. Even though she had enhanced speed, it felt like she still wasn't going fast enough.

As Ruby leaves the house the raven circles overhead for a little while holding some kind of paper he found in the house. His calls make it sound like he is laughing at her. Ruby ran too fast to see what it was the raven was holding.

She makes it onto the bus and thoughts of crazy priest clones invading Denver filled her mind with discomfort. Ruby can still feel that man's eyes on her.

When she makes it back to the school she finds herself locked out of Clover's dorm. She remembers Clover swiping some kind of key to get in through the door and in her rush to leave she didn't ask Clover for the key.
 

Koln slowly stands and places his hat on the bed. He runs his hands over his face, straining to think. "They would not exhume my body, desecration of a corpse is something the Church does not do, it would prevent me rising from the dead on the Last Day. They might want to see a corpse get buried, but I doubt they would want an autopsy, it would be perfect if I could just lay still and be buried, but you and Ruby better dig me up or else."

Clover shivered at the thought of being buried "alive." She was none too fond of small, dark spaces. She could see herself very clearly in a padded box. She would probably start to panic--claw frantically at the lid--before they would even get a foot of Earth over her head.
But then, that brought up another can of worms.
"I think we'd have to think of a very good reason for you to be dead, Koln. And then how to we set up a funeral without a coroner? You're not exactly old enough to just have your heart give out or anything. They'd want to check, wouldn't they? I mean, why would a perfectly healthy young man just drop dead? We can't even fake an accident. The police would be involved. Coroners. And as for digging you back up, I'm not sure what they do over in Europe, but over here we tend to cement our dead into the grave. I think they say it's a security issue. Grave robbers, you know? So how would Ruby and I get you out? Jackhammer? In any case, Heaven help us if two young vampires are found exhuming a corpse in the dead of night!"
She blinked a few times to clear her head. In all her wildest dreams, if anyone had told her a week ago that she'd be planning on helping a vampire priest fake his own death, she would have called them insane.
 

As Ruby leaves the house the raven circles overhead for a little while holding some kind of paper he found in the house. His calls make it sound like he is laughing at her. Ruby ran too fast to see what it was the raven was holding.

She makes it onto the bus and thoughts of crazy priest clones invading Denver filled her mind with discomfort. Ruby can still feel that man's eyes on her.

When she makes it back to the school she finds herself locked out of Clover's dorm. She remembers Clover swiping some kind of key to get in through the door and in her rush to leave she didn't ask Clover for the key.
"Ugh..nice goin," Ruby groaned as her rush has prevented her from receiving a clue and forgetting about magic door cards. She knocked on Clover's door in embarrassment. "Clover? Are you there? I forgot about the card thing again," she said awkwardly.
She put a hand up to her face. "That raven had something, but why couldn't he just let me know in the first place?" she grumbled to herself. "Guess I will have to come back another time.."
 

Koln thinks... "Well, what if my remains were burnt. I don't know, I met a fiery death..." He stands, hearing Ruby's and opens the door for her. "Oh thank the Lord you are safe!" He exclaims, on the verge of tightly hugging her but he restrains himself, "Er, so... how was your walk?"
 

Ruby's face lit up when she saw Koln as he opened the door, she was in time after all. "Oh thank goodness I came back here in time!" she exclaimed. "The walk was a bit unnerving, I think I saw a man of God who looks almost exactly like you. He's searching around in Denver!"
She slumped a bit, emotionally drained. "He didn't realize what I was, thank goodness, but as I greeted him, his eyes roamed over me like sheets of ice.."
 

Clover quirked an eyebrow bitterly, mad at herself that they had only started thinking about Koln faking his death tonight. Why couldn't she have thought of this back when she knew the church had contacted him? Stupid, stupid Clover!
She sighed. It didn't matter that Ruby wasn't in the loop yet. She would be clued in soon enough. Icily, she remarked, "Then it sounds like we're already too late. I don't even know if we'd have enough time at this point, Koln. And this is just great. If he doesn't show up tonight, I'm sure he'll come tomorrow. Do they even know where you're staying? Will they come here?"
 

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