In the morning, the town comes back to life. Birds crow overhead, a snake nearby hisses, a lingering coyote dips behind a shop before disappearing into the wild. It's a frightening contrast to the stillness of yesterday but it doesn't mean it's over yet. After all, today is the trial.
The Sheriff stands on the porch of the Town Hall and brings his hand up to his mouth to let out a whistle. He'll thumb back to the Hall behind him and very clearly state --
"Trial time, folks. Get in here and figure out who did it."
And then he'll turn to leave before pausing and adding on,
"Bring a snack or somethin' too.
The Town Hall is set up more like a court house, a Judge's bench at the front but instead of at center, it's off to the side as if more for observation than participation. There's a table at the front of the room already holding a small box and a pad of papers and pen, for voting apparently. A side room containing only a metal gurney is next and today it's obvious why there's a gurney there at all with the corpse, resting right on top of it. Aside from that, there are rows for everyone to take a seat and it's only after everyone is inside and settled, that the doors close and the Sheriff speaks.
"Well, have at it. You've got till nine."
And then, he points to a clock on the wall that reads 12:00. Good luck.
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Xion will leave off her own careful examination of the body when it's clear there's nothing to find. ]
So someone probably hit her to knock her out, and then... [ Did. All the rest of that. ]
Should we move on?
[ you pick this time buddy ]
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Since Ana is in pieces, he moves to pick Chane's body by default. It's his first time seeing it, and he definitely regrets not being in their room on Thursday night, but— ah. There's nothing to be done about that, as much as he hates it.
He'll start by methodically checking those bruises and all that blood. Does the blood belong to her, or does it seem like it came from someone else? And for that matter, any way to tell what kind of object the bruises were caused by?]
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[ Said. Very quietly. She finds this body hard to look at, for the first time. ]
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He gives her a questioning look, stopped halfway through checking the body over. He can't voice this out, but his question is pretty damn obvious: How do you know?
Because even though inspecting the body might have revealed that, Xion is kind of... avoiding looking at Chane.]
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There are two prominent head injuries, one at the temple specifically and the rest are just bruises and scrapes mostly on her arms and face. It's easy to tell by someone who knows what they're looking for that these are fight injuries. Combat.
One of her hands is also burned and there's a swell of blood as Jason opens her mouth -- apparently she bit her tongue. ]
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Her arms and her face... she fought someone. [ She's fought her whole life... she'd recognize injuries like that anywhere. ]
Maybe the shovel was just used to kill her?
[ ... she seems reluctant to answer Jason's unspoken but obvious question. She'll offer, after a pause: ]
Someone told me.
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Well.
He's definitely furrowing his brows at Xion, face pinched as he gestures for her to elaborate. Who told her? Is she covering up for Chane's murderer? Come on.]
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[ ... ]
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He also mouths: Are you sure?
What the fuck, Xion.]
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Bonfire.
Or any other kind of open fire, really. But at least it wasn't an item.]
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I think that's all we'll find out from Chane. That leaves...
[ ... Ana's bits, which she glances at with a small frown. ]
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...it's still just as gross as I remember. Go rest your leg, Xion. Jason and I can take it from here. [Because...may as well examine with the other bat, apparently.]
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Once she's left, he sighs and gestures for Percy to help him start arranging the body parts on the gurney. It's time to play some corpse jigsaw, buddy.]
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Somebody brought up the question if it looks like the cuts are a hack job or something better. But they went a step further than Lust. They cut out all of her organs, too.
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With the blood they're presumably getting on them, he writes on the gurney:]
Like Nisha. But worse.
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One of the things Damian and I can't figure out is how someone managed to spread her through the whole hotel without any of us noticing. [A frown.] He seemed to be taking it a little hard when we found her head. My other question is how did they get the doors open? A lot of the body parts were in the rooms of people who're dead.