Of Judgement Mortal and Divine
3rd of February 2007 A.D.
Click Clippy catches the license plate. "How did the hand of death touch metal and wheels?" You pull at the threads of the world and at their edges you find...
A blond girl crowned with flowers, the flash of a seductive smile, a moment's hesitation as she climbs into the back of the car, some flash of warning ignored. She needs the money. In the driver's seat a thin balding man still on the sunny side of middle age and unremarkable for it except for the unwholesome glint in his eye. He means to take more than is on offer. Everything.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 14/15 (Crown Question)
"Serial killer, just a guy.." you get out. Somehow that's worse than if you'd found a vampire or a ghoul.
Why is it worse?
As soon as the words are out of your mouth the green car takes a turn and Daniel turns off the highway to follow him. "I've got his plates, we'll get his name in a few minutes."
"Huh?" It's only now you realize your brother had never seen you hack anything, more specifically he has not seen your friends carve their way though firewalls like they aren't even there.
"Chris Halliwell 42." An image flashes on the small screen, stripped, sterile and official, a driver's license, but undeniably the same guy.
"We can just call him into the local police..."
Lydia glares though the mist, her left hand twitching up like she's pulling on a puppet's strings. "There's no body in there. Someone definitely died in that trunk, maybe more than one with what you are saying, but the body isn't there for mortal investigators to find."
"So what, we just let him
go?" Olivia asks, as horrified at the prospect as you are, not that you are planning to.
Tiffany gives a long suffering sigh. "I can get him to confess, I'm going to need to borrow a recorder though."
To her credit Olivia remembers who she's talking to, the first to ask the question all the rest of you are thinking. "How? He is not just going to admit to murder because you asked him nicely?"
"Humans are social creatures, even those who would step so far beyond society's norms desire recognition. They want to be known, to be feared, especially by their victims. I'm almost certainly near enough his type to get him in the right frame of mind with a bit of planning."
"So what, you're just going to use yourself as a lure?" For his part Daniel isn't thinking about who he's talking to right now, just the idea of her putting herself in danger.
"Why bother?" Lydia cuts in. "Look we can just overtake him on a stretch of road with no other cars I strike him though the window with a bolt, the coroner's going to rule it a stroke. A stroke it shall be, only of the more antique sort."
"You can't just kill someone like that!" Daniel protests automatically. "There are laws..."
"And rules and regulations and time passed in which he might
kill again," she interrupts him, expression darkening. "Better that the guilty should be set free than that the innocent is bound. A good system, for fallible mortal justice. The judgement of Molly's insight is not fallible, this man has killed for the thrill of it as Tiffany has said and he will kill again. Why should justice walk the long winding path of mortal instrumentality?"
"I'm
pretty sure the UK doesn't have the death sentence." Olivia breaks the uneasy silence that had fallen inside the car.
Lydia opens her mouth to argue, stops then takes an unexpected tack. "If you really want to keep him alive and Molly is fine with it we could just send him away. To the City of Laws I mean or some other place in Sanctuary, maybe they will find some use for him like those Vampires you caught."
"That's not the same..." Daniel starts, but his girlfriend cuts him off.
"You are right, it's not, Red Feasters need blood though they do not specifically need to kill after the first time it is difficult for them to stop. The man up ahead just enjoys ripping women's lives away untimely."
What do you do?
[] Tiffany's plan, get a confession to hand to the police
[] Lydia's Plan, Hunter's Bolt through the window to induce stroke like symptoms
[] Vanish him into Sanctuary, they have plenty of jail cells to keep him
[] Write in
OOC: For anyone wondering the way Lydia checked if there was a body in that car at the moment was attempt to use Command the Dead in that general direction. 
