THE ̧̕͝SEC͢͠͠O͏N̸̢D̵ INVE͘Ś̷̶T͏̛I͞GA̕҉T͟͡IO҉̢N̴͘

[strangerpeople]

T͝҉̡H͝E̵̢ ͝͝S̶Ę̡͞C͜͡҉OND̵̴ ̢I̶͢N͏V͝E͏̨̛ST͞I͢͞G̴͏A̛̕T͡ÌON͟

[The day has come.

..Valentine's Day, of course! Or should we now call it...ValITine's Day? Well, it doesn't matter. It's a Friday.

Hopefully, the Strangers got through this week without killing. But perhaps it's best to be sufficiently paranoid and check first, hmm?]

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EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[The first thing that King will notice is the throat wound.]

[unwittingking]

[…his paws got bloody when he tried finding a pulse, didn't they?]

[strangerpeople]

[A little, yes. Hopefully you won't be a suspect.

Want to take a closer look?]

[unwittingking]

[He's grabbing a napkin later. He's not disrespecting Lala by wiping it on her, and he's definitely not wiping it on his own pants.

Yeah, sure. It probably got the two important arteries, right? Carotid and...whatever the other one is?]

[strangerpeople]

[The jugular.

Incidentally, the damage is mostly to the right side of Lala's neck-which would be Kings's left as he looks down at the body.]

[unwittingking]

[Right, jugular, that's it. He totally knew that.

So...probably started from the right...he mimics the action of slicing a little bit, trying not to think about what happened. Right hand probably, going from the right to the left, and damage getting lessened from there. Alright.

Anything else with the neck wound? Or is it on to the stomach wound?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Onto the stomach wound!

First off, it looks like she might have been shot.]

[unwittingking]

[So armature gun-shot-ology part two: Electric Boogaloo.

Are there any burns around the wound this time? Like with Akira? Or is it clearly not from close range this time?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Impossible to tell, because it looks partly healed up, oddly enough.]

[unwittingking]

...huh.

[Healed how? Like “This is probably some magic” healed or “Someone did some first aid pretty well on short notice” healed?]

[strangerpeople]

[It seems more akin to the former, if anything.]

[unwittingking]

[Thank you Eliza for getting him familiar with magic healing. He owes you...more than he already did.

Alright, any sign they were trying to stop the bleeding? If someone tried to heal her with a potion, he can’t see them also trying to stop the bleeding.]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Well, it looks like someone tried to, if Lala's hand is any indication.

There are blood stains on her fingers and palm.]

[unwittingking]

[Yeah, figured. Doesn’t paint a pretty picture of how it happened, but...it’s showing something.

So, someone shot her, and she had enough time to try to stop the bleeding before they cut her throat. Sad, but possible, he guesses.

Anything else off here, or should he look elsewhere on the body?

(...also, the blood is red, right? Or is this alien chartreuse colored blood here?)]

[strangerpeople]

[The blood is red.

Nothing more in Lala's hand. Time to move elsewhere on the body!]

[unwittingking]

[Alright, cool, cool, he can feel just as uncomfortable about this as he would with anyone else’s blood. Awesome.

Moving on, is there anything else up with the stomach wound? Or is it time to find the next noticeable thing?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Well, he will notice that there's not that much blood there anymore. In fact, both injuries look like they were cleaned up, or at least someone attempted it.]

[unwittingking]

[They...cleaned up? That’s...that’s new.

Any sign of how? Or is this just mystery cleaning?]

[strangerpeople]

[It looks like someone tried to wipe the body down.]

[unwittingking]

[He almost thinks fingerprints before he remembers that they don’t even have the tech to look for that stuff. It’s...weird, and he’s got an idea about it, but he’ll save it for the trial.

Anything else of note? Or is it time to find some food to take to the trial?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is more.

There are off hairs on Lala's arms.]

[unwittingking]

[Hair? Can he tell what color? A lot of people have specific hair colors, so it shouldn’t be too hard to tell who’s it is.]

[strangerpeople]

[They are long and white.]

[unwittingking]

...that fucking rat.

[Yes, he’s assuming. Not his best idea, maybe, but he’s still doing it.

He’ll grab those and check for anything else. Nothing like defensive wounds or anything? Or are we good?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is one more thing, King will notice.

Lala's antennae are unevenly-sized.]