Asheron knelt on the wooden floor, his hands cuffed begin his back. Sitting in front of him we're the other nobles. They all had a mixture of expressions on their faces. Anger, disgust, disappointment, glee. 

But no one showed any signs of disbelief.

Whatever nonsense they were told about him was believed wholeheartedly.

After a few more moments of silence, Lord Elmesse sighed.

"Lord Asheron is there anything you would like to say?"

"Where is my son?" Asheron answered immediately.

Elmesse frowned, "Your human is being held in a secure location. He should be the least of your worries right now."

"He was hit in the head by one of your...minions. I smelled blood. My 'son' needs to be treated by a doctor."

Elmesse stared at Asheron for a while before he glanced to the side. Following that was the small click of a door opening and closing.

"Now what exactly am I being accused of?" Asheron said finally on the subject.

"I will start from the beginning then. Soon after you were sent out on your task a few nobles disappeared. Not only that, the men I sent to investigate gave me a startling report. Do you want to know what that report was?" 

Asheron said nothing at Lord Elmesse dramatics.

"The report was that, all of the missing cases are circled around your research facility." 

"And?"

"And," Lord Elmesse continued, "We suspect that you have something to do with the disappearances. Especially now that we captured you and your scientist at one of the places a vampire has disappeared from."

"You were the ones who said I should go there." Asheron refuted.

"Yes but there was no reason for your scientist, Benson, to be there."

Asheron couldn't say anything to that. He also wanted to know why Benson was there. But he did know it had something to do with Vlad. 

Asheron eyes widened slightly as a thought came to him. Elmesse, who was watching him closely noticed a change in his demeanor.

"Speak Lord Asheron."

"Vlad." Asheron said looking into his eyes.

Elmesse paused.

"What about Vlad?"

"He was there," Asheron continued. "Benson seemed afraid of something or someone."

"Who else would he be afraid of but you!" Rose hissed, her fangs bared.

Asheron ignored her and continued to look at Elmesse.

"No, not me. He wouldn't tell me anything. But I know it had something to do with Vlad. Even you know he has been acting strange. That's why you asked me if he had been acting oddly at the ball."

Elmesse narrowed his eyes and rubbed his beard.

"He's just making things up! He knows where Micky is, he knows where everyone is!" Rose stood ready to attack. "Just let me-,"

"Be quiet." 

The temperature in the room suddenly dropped and even the lights dimmed. Elmesse looked at Rose, his eyes glowing a faint red color. 

Roses eyes widened. She wanted to resist but even if she was a noble, she wasn't as old as Elmesse. So instead she glared at Asheron as if it were his fault, and sought down.

In the next instant everything was back to normal. Elmesse cleared his throat and nodded towards Asheron.

"Let me bring him in for questioning. There are also some things I want to find out."

"You can't possibly expect to bring him in by yourself?" Elmesse said with skepticism in his voice.

"I have my ways. You know about my family's experiments."

Elmesse made an ah sound and fell silent for a moment.

The other nobles who had been watching the whole thing looked at Elmesse and waited.

"You still cannot be trusted and there isn't exactly any proof that Vlad is the real culprit." Elmesse said finally. "However you will be released, but only for you to bring back proof that everything is Vlads doing. Also one of my guards will go to assist you. Does everyone agree?"

Multiple hand were raised slightly.

Rose looked at Elmesse in disbelief but said nothing. And of course she did not raise a hand.

Asheron stood and raised his shackled hands. A guard came over to unlock them.

"We will be giving you 8 hours. The sun is up so Vlad should be back at your house by now."

Asheron didn't move and Elmesse frowned.

"Is there anything else?" 

Asheron rubbed his wrist and looked at him. 

"Damian comes back with me."

Elmesse sighed and nodded.

Asheron gave a half smile.

"Then we're done."