Second Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Another week has come and gone and there’s already been one body this week. But unlike last week, nothing seems immediately off as you exit your bedrooms. Maybe no one else died this week…?

Investigate?]

Comments

[defyingfrigidity]

[Very strange indeed, to find such an out of place tool here. Are there any wires to go with it, or something someone had been working on left there?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well, there are no wires in the immediate area, but that doesn't mean that there isn't any around here.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Hmm. The floor, maybe? Or is there a trash bin nearby?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Nope, and while there is a trash bin nearby, nope. Look a little harder, Elsa.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[The drawers? Is there any other general clutter on the desk she can look under?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[There seems to be some books stacked up, it might be hard to tell without really looking but it seems like they've been rearranged.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Okay, she'll check them out, picking all of them up and flipping through them. Is there somr sort of similarity to their subjects? Or maybe someone stuffed something inside, under, or behind them?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[The books just seem like average books with nothing really of note about them. But behind them there is a bloodied wire.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[A bloody...? Oh... oh god. She just.... she just found the murder weapon, didn't she?

She has to step back a moment, because her stomach lurches so hard she's afraid she's going to be sick. The ringing in her ears isn't helping with that, and neither is the way her vision is starting to tunnel. God, she's looking at what ended Sophie's life!

Luck...ily...? Elsa is used to these kinds of panic attacks, so she just. Takes a minute to push it all back, to conceal, don't feel, and she's able to bring herself back from the edge. For the moment.

Okay... o-okay... if she looks at it again, can she tell what sort of wire it is? Where it came from?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[How familiar is Elsa with pianos? Because while it's completely bent out of shape, it seems to be the kind of wire that would belong to a piano.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[She was isolated in a castle for most of her life, girl needed some kinda hobbies. So yeah, she knows at least what piano wires are!

... which isn't really a good sign, nope.]

They... they did this on purpose...

[Why else would you go cutting wires out of pianos, to possibly use them as weapons???]