Marty peered down at the rubble that used to be a normal statue until it was replaced by a being of living stone.  Maybe this was prime gargoyle real estate, and he couldn't afford the rent?  In any case, they had enough to place this guy at the scene.  So now they needed to figure out if he took the money, or someone else took advantage of the broken window to help themselves.  And how the gargoyle ended up going through the window in the first place.

Rae and Leo - especially Leo - where doing a fine job of building up to that when Francis... 

"Say what?"  She blurted when the skeletal bard accused the gargoyle of being a mimic.

"So, did you even intend to break into Odo's?"  Marty asked the pigeon perched near the gargoyle.  Or maybe an empty spot in the air.  She certainly wasn't directly addressing the immobile and presumably non-sentient statue.  Really.  "Or did you like, trip and fall?  Or get pushed or something?  And then robbed the till to divert suspicion?"

"I be tellin' ye... we only want t' be yer friends," Rae says. 

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"Oh great.  Like we were the ones that committed petty robbery and now want to cover it up with murder.  You think killing a bunch of students is going to help keep your cover?  Not only will the city cops show up if we disappear after walking into the vampire temple, but the School will take an interest too.  Why not just tell us what's going on, and trust us to keep your secret?"

"Aye," Rae says.  "We be gettin' it. Where did ye bury the plunder? The goblins never need t' know ye be the one t' sing... But if there be a fight up here, we be drawin' everyone's attention."