Ask her to prove it
From Create Your Own Story
"How do I know you're telling the truth? It sounds like the plot of some cheap horror flick. For all I know, you could be making it up."
Gabriella regards you for a moment, then sighs. "Well, here. This place'll take care of itself for a minute. Come with me." She beacons you to follow her.
You leave the hotel and walk down a few streets. Finally, Gabriella stops at a house and knocks on a door. "Abel? Are you home?"
A rather gristly old man opens the door a crack. "Gabriella! To what do I owe this visit?"
Gabreilla gestures to you. "This woman doesn't believe about the doctor. Can you set her straight?"
He turns his attention to you. "You don't, do you? Well. Come on in both of you."
As he opens the door wider, you see that he's missing an arm. "How did that happen?" you ask, gesturing to his stump.
"That was from one of the doctor's creations", he says, sitting down. "He's especially fond of wolves, you know. It was sort of a wolf crocodile hybrid. It grabbed my arm and wouldn't let go. It tore my arm clean off. Someone else shot it, but they let me keep it. Fair exchange for my arm, you know? I had its head stuffed and mounted." He gestures up above him. "Gabriella, can you take it down?"
Gabriella's standing in the way of the mounted head. But, she takes something off the wall and sets it on the table. You take a look. Wolf-crocodile hybrid. Yup. That's a pretty fair name for whatever this is. It has a snout like a crocodile, but a wolf nose. Fur on most of it, and scales near the nose. Wicked teeth, too. This can't be real. You touch it. It feels real enough. It would have taken a master to taxidermy two animals together like this. "And you're expecting me to believe that Doctor Kreuger combined two live animals into this."
Abel comes up beside you, "I don't know how he did it, but he did. I've got the pelt, too, if you need more convincing."
"No, I'm good." You say. Your mind is reeling. You still don't know what to believe. "If he's such a menace, why don't you all oust him?"
The man and Gabriella exchange glances. Gabriella clears her throat. "To tell the truth, we'd like to, but we're kind of afraid to. Every month or two someone starts talking about raiding the castle, but no one ever does anything about it. We're not exactly experienced at that kind of thing, and if we were to fail, we're afraid of how he'd retaliate. Who knows what he has caged up there!"
She looks at you thoughtfully. "Now, you've been in there, and it sounds like he practically invited you back. If you could get in and open the doors from the inside, we might be able to do it."
Oh geez. This sounds dangerous. You look at the croc-wolf head again, and Abel's stump of an arm. Something does need to be done, but maybe what they're suggesting is a bit extreme. There might be an easier way to evict Doctor Kreuger.
