THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[It is very early. Very, very early. It's still night, even. Most are probably still asleep.

They will not be asleep for long.

Not after the screaming suddenly starts coming from the voices outside their doors, if they are in the apartment car, in their rooms.]

Oh god oh god oh god-

B____R! FOOT IN MY MOUTH INDEED!

[And certainly not after the big

BOOM

That suddenly rocks the train. There is screeching, moaning, and a flash of great darkness. Everyone, for a moment, is blinded by blackness. There are shouts and screams that echo, no matter where one is. Smoke and begins to fill the hall of the apartment car.

Whatever has happened-it's bad. It's very bad.

And the darkness is starting to clear up...]

Comments

[unwittingking]

[So, King hates this entire situation. To the moon and beyond. Another two kids are dead, one of them being the brother of the girl they lost just last week. He hates this.

But. Like Hell is he letting another kid look over the body. This is something that the adults should be doing.

So...how does Zack look?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Well, definitely dead, for one.

He's also...decided less bandaged, for another. Much of his bandaging is cut and unfurled underneath him.]

[unwittingking]

[Okay, definitely weird. Just to make sure from what Caleb sees, the wounds are clean cuts? Nothing like random bruising, as far as he can see?]

[strangerpeople]

[Correct.]

[unwittingking]

[Awesome, cool, he hates it.

So, with how the file looks, is he just covered in cuts of varying sizes? Or does one of them look like a stab wound?]

[strangerpeople]

[None of them look like stab wounds, but the fatal wounds look deeper than the others.]

[unwittingking]

[So...deep cuts. ha

Okay, so those fatal wounds...they’re probably on the midsection, right? Those ones seem like the most likely ones to be fatal.]

[strangerpeople]

[Correct. The deeper ones are on the midsection.]

[unwittingking]

[Makes sense. Unless there were deep cuts on his wrists it was unlikely to be anywhere else.

Now, anything else to find here immediately, or does he need to search Zack's pockets?]

[strangerpeople]

[He will notice something near Zack, if not right on him, actually.]

[unwittingking]

[Alright, so long as it's not the scythe or something bigger than King, he'll try to pick it up and examine it. What is it?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There are a lot of glass shards of various sizes near him. The smell of mushroom is faint near them.

The biggest shards have blood on them.]

[unwittingking]

[IMMEDIATE R E G R E T

Okay, uh, holding any shards he's now holding away from his face because EW. This is...probably related. How...he's got two ideas.

First! Looking at Zack's head. Any injuries there?]

[strangerpeople]

[Nope. His head is fine.]

[unwittingking]

[Alright. One other option, then.

He'll look over at Tali. Any glass in her wounds?]

DINING CAR EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Several large and sharp-looking shards, to be exact.]

[unwittingking]

[Yikes

Are they in any specific place? Like, extra large one is in her stomach, or are they all spread out?]

[strangerpeople]

[All three of the big ones are in her stomach.]

[unwittingking]

[Yeah, not good.

Anything else note about Zack's body, or should he help with Tali's?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is some more on her.

He will notice the smaller lacerations and bruises on her. They don't have glass around them, though.]

[unwittingking]

[Huh. That's odd. Can he tell anything from them? Like, what size was the item that bruised her? Or what those smaller cuts look like? (Mainly do they have any specific shape that he could recognize from another weapon?)]

[strangerpeople]

[No, they do not. It's also hard to tell what made the bruises.]

[unwittingking]

[Awesome.

Anything else to note about the bodies, or should he check for convenient notes in one of their pockets that say someone wanted to meet them both, with the writer's signature on the letter?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is a coat of dust and muck on her body, as well.]

[unwittingking]

[ew gross

Weird. Regular dust, like the kind from something sitting around for too long, or the kind from dirt, or...

It's grime from something breaking above her, isn't it?]