2. The Deaths
Robin looked again at the report on his desk.
In his two decades as police man he'd never seen such a death. It had at first seemed to be the work of an animal. But it couldn't be worked out how an animal had gotten into the home of one of the most well off people in Edinburgh. It was suggested that someone had somehow snuck some foreign animal into his home and ordered it to kill the man.
Robin found that the man had left everything to his young Transylvanian lover – Miss Lulia Cel Rau. But when they tried to find her it was found she had disappeared and she hadn't been found on any flights or trains. It was like she had just disappeared into thin air. Which of course was impossible!
It got even stranger when it was found that the man seemed to have been aroused at the time of death. He was literally smiling as he died.
'Maybe he was shagging the animal which killed him,' suggested his partner, DI Cassie King.
Robin had already wondered about Cassie's strange sense of humour. The young twenty-six year old woman was brilliant but bordering on insane. She had curly red hair, green eyes; she never tanned and was tiny. Her northern Irish accent was the most prominent thing about her. Robin new he sometimes took the young woman fore granted but he cared about her. Though she had a knack of attracting with bastards; they weren't good enough for her.
The final strange thing was when a few days later the corpse disappeared and the pathologist was found dead of exactly the same causes with the corpses DNA all over him. Then a few days later the pathologist too disappeared.
Robin rubbed his forehead.
'Any idea?' asked Robin.
'Vampires,' laughed Cassie.
'There's no such thing as vampires,' Robin replied monotonously.
'I know,' Cassie grinned, 'it was a joke!'
