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Honestly, you do not know. It does not seem likely that the Guards would even think to get the Inquisition involved to test a random bloodstain for the Strangeness … but that does not mean that the Inquisition will not get involved on their own, and decide to test the blood if it becomes known to the Guards. In fact, you should count on the Inquisition getting involved.
Think about it from the prospective of the Inquisitors. They are making headway into the investigation of their lives - an actual Witch in Scrimshaw Mount. Their only real clue is that fresh remains from the cities burying grounds are being used in constructs, which draws their attention towards the burying grounds of the city, and the men that have been placed in charge of them. By a stroke of blind, white luck, something magical (the note from Ossavian that you read only described it as a ‘device’) happens to turn up, in an apartment right across the street from one of the graveyards, possibly also made out of stolen body parts. Suspicion looms over the Sexton of that cemetery, but as they are an Imperial Citizen, with the additional protection of an ecclesiastical title, you are not able act on those suspicions – put them and their household into custody, and go over their residence with a fine-tooth comb – without some sort of proof.
However, in the process of dealing with the contamination released by the operation of the ‘device’, a potential character witness shows up. Someone who in just the first, informal interview has already given a potential angle of attack on the Sexton in question – his worldly attitude, his skinflintedness and his avarice. It is possible that this man is either selling remains to the Witch, or more likely, being bribed to look the other way while the Witch procures their own ‘odds and ends’. And this was just the first interview – who knows, perhaps this humble gravedigger has seen or heard something incriminating without realizing it, that will come up in a later. Things look promising.
Then that witness disappears, along with her apparently ill father – before she was able to give testimony, conveniently undermining the investigation. Considering that the witness and her father are Lepers, and as such are not allowed to just disappear, there is going to have to be some sort of investigation … which the Inquisition is going to have to involve themselves with. The Inquisition might incorrectly conclude that the South Sexton had you and father killed – or they might correctly conclude that you and father were somehow involved with the graverobbing. Either way, their attention is going to be drawn to the Midden, which will inevitably lead to them discovering all of the Strangeness that the Coroners, some of whom by then might be well on their way to becoming Strangers, have been spreading all over the place. It is a grim thought, but the Inquisition might be coming after you if you plant the decoy ball or not.
