>>718969852
For fuck's sake, is everything a zero-sum pick-a-side game to you?
Who's defending anything? The prose itself is bad, I don't care, the mystery is enough to keep me thinking for now. We'll see how good/bad it actually is later on, but it's enough to be somewhat entertaining in the meantime.
Yes, I'm easily entertained, what's it to you?

>>718970389
The question then would be: whose body is it next to the coffer/sarcophagus, wearing detective clothes?
Santiago was supposedly active "in the early years of the 20th Century"... fiitting enough for Fabien, I guess. Maybe before the embrace?

Another thing: the hands on that pipcture bother me: too white to be Fabiens, mark not visible. (Unless some visual effect is fucking perception of either?)