THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[It's Friday once more. As the third week begins to near it's end, the tensions-and nightmares-among everyone is on the rise. It doesn't help that this is Friday-and Friday is shaping up to be a bad day of the week.

The question is whether this Friday will be any different from the last. Perhaps this Friday will be different. After all, the morning is over, and nothing happened yet!

But then, isn't that strange too? Maybe it would be better to look around. Just in case.]

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[icanhearscreams]

[He gathers up some stuff to get up and look at the chest wound.]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[It's definitely a kill wound-straight into where the heart is.]

[icanhearscreams]

[Does it look ragged or clean?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's a clean shot.]

[icanhearscreams]

[Let’s check the limbs for wounds.]

[strangerpeople]

[No wounds on the limbs.]

[icanhearscreams]

[Let’s turn him over. Carefully.]

[strangerpeople]

[Anything you're looking for?]

[icanhearscreams]

[Any sort of marking on the back.]

[strangerpeople]

[Nope, nothing.]

[joinhands]

Then no exit wound...

[Krone has been standing here grim, supportive, and tall.]

[icanhearscreams]

Help me get him down carefully. I don’t want to fling him.

[joinhands]

That's probably for the best...

[She goes back up towards the head, because:]

I'll be the one to lift up the shoulders entirely. We don't want to disturb the blood pattern on the shelf too much.

[Speaking of which what is the blood pooling underneath Franciscus' neck stump like? Super fresh??? Is there more anywhere else on the bookshelf?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[It's fresh enough that the blood isn't entirely dry, but the injury's stopped bleeding.

But perhaps more pressing is that the major trail of blood...isn't on the bookshelf. Nope.

It's coming from the window above the bookshelf.]

[icanhearscreams]

[Jun will scramble up to look at the window.]

[strangerpeople]

[It is way too high up for anyone to have reasonably put the body up there normally. Or in any way. Whatever is beyond the window-if anything-is also too dark to see in the library, unfortunately.

The blood trail nevertheless looks like it started where the sill is.]

[joinhands]

[Is this a window that could guillotine someone?? What's the latch mechanism like?]

[icanhearscreams]

[Examining the world windowsill!]

[strangerpeople]

[Nope. It is in fact too small for a whole body to fit through.

No latches or anything else suggesting a potential death trap, either.]

[icanhearscreams]

[Hm. He’s going to check very carefully along the trail.]

[strangerpeople]

[Its a bit hard since the blood trail is so high up. Even Krone would have a hard time jumping up to get a particularly close look.

It does look like your investigation is done...]

[whiterosefoes]

[Harriet hasn't done much, but... even stepping back, the blood trail doesn't seem to go anywhere else. That seems to be it with that window.]

....This doesn't make any sense. We might need to look somewhere else.

[strangerpeople]

[Right as Harriet says that, there is a sudden POP near where Arthur is standing.]

[icanhearscreams]

I thought we might find out why his head’s off...

[Dafuq is that?]

[whiterosefoes]

Huh? [Harriet looks up and down for the source of that noise.]