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Chapter
13: Epilogue
With
mounting circumstantial evidence against him Van Reason, with lawyer
present begins explaining himself. He looks the detectives right in
the eyes as he explains that Colera her self must have placed the
jewelry in his place when she was there las night. As he explains
that all of his 'victims' were actual real undid vampires as is the
young woman woos murder the detectives are investigating Toron leaves
the room and asks that a psychiatrist be called in. They have Van
Rossin tell his version of the events repeatedly for several hours
and talk with several of his friends who confirm that ever seance he
was attacked he has insisted that vampires, the supernatural kind
exists. His lower agrees to institutionalization in a high security
ward as it seems obvious that the man is indeed very insane.
With
the case neatly closed the press quickly moves on to other more
interesting news. The detectives return to the grind of dealing with
investigations that are a lot more straight forward. Because of the
agreement there is no actual trial. Much to the release of the
district attorney who was concerned that he would have to put a man
in jail with little evidence. Simply the word of a few people that
there were bodies, they just disintegrated before anything like an
autopsy could be done. Beside, the search of the brownstone revealed
that the people who had been living there had been collecting bodies
for some time. The found the remains in variable states of decay of a
large number of people who had been missing for a considerable amount
of time inside the residence. The autopsies on those bodies showed
massive blood loss as the cause of death. It was evident that the
individuals Van Rossin killed, while (as far as most people were
concerned) not supernatural killers were involved in some sort of
vampire like practice. On theory being that they drained people of
their blood intruder to sell it on the black market.
Once
things had quieted down considerable Colera spayed one last visit to
her beloved. Arriving at his residence she was shocked to find him
laying cold in his bath tub with the shower running. She spent much
of the night near his dead body asking why he would do it. Knowing
the truth. He had no way of knowing that she was, if not alive then
attest walking about in a strange new reality. He felt he couldn't be
with out her so he had decided to follow her, not realizing that she
was not on the other side. A couple of hours before dawn she gives
her love one last kiss and taking her necklace and ring along with
the painting of her and he in what was to have been their wedding
garb leaves the residence. She calls in his death and watches as they
carry him out and away.
His
funeral is exactly one week after her memorial service was haled and
he is buried next to the memorial stone with her name on it. For
years to come the sight would appear to be haunted by a specter
bearing a frightful resemblance to the face in the prostrate of the
memorial. No one ever realizing that the person who visited the sight
by night was Colera herself having little else left to her. Leaking
the willingness to end her own existence. Uncertain wetter it was a
facet of a will to live and excite that was far stronger then her
beloved's was or weather she simply leaked the courage and faith to
follow him over to the other side.
