SUBJECT: The Dead of Knight PARTICIPANTS: Alex Karahalios, James Norrington, Six DATE FILED: immediately on their return, mid-Harvestmere-ish STATUS: mission complete / log ongoing SUMMARY: A team go to Churneau to investigate the death of Chevalier Dame Ines. It starts poorly, and progresses to worse. Although they find a suspect and report them, they get kicked out.
REPORT:
Commander Coupe,
Respectfully, I think sending a team with two rifters to a war zone to investigate a murder might not have been the ideal scenario, and I promise you that is a massive understatement. Even with Knight-Commander Norrington’s intervention and advocacy on a few things, they were frosty from the get go.
The good news is that I was able to do an autopsy. Based on what I found, I feel confident in saying that Dame Ines was poisoned. There weren’t any signs of injury from a weapon, or sickness that I could work out. Attached is a break down of my findings, but boiled down to simplest terms her stomach and esophagus had an excess of blood, the mucous membranes were eroded, and there was a lot of blacked tissue. I haven’t seen anything like it before, honestly, but the nature of the damage and the localisation definitely supports poison.
The bad news is that while I was doing the autopsy and Six and Norrington were investigating and searching, one of our suspects got suspicious and tried to drown me in a cask of wine. (Next time I’ll make sure not to do the autopsy in the cellar, but it was the best location we had available to us.)
Luckily, my esteemed colleagues found alarming evidence in her room, realised they couldn’t find her to arrest her, and came to my rescue. It was very stirring and emotional. Inspiration. The soldiers hate us for reporting their beloved cook and getting her hanged, and then we got booted for stirring up dissatisfaction and conflict in the ranks, so that isn’t really ideal.
Along with the medical report, attached you’ll find the encoded documents from the cook’s room. She’s been hung already for being an Ander spy. Hopefully she hadn’t had a chance to report to the Ander forces about the Dame’s death. Might be that one of these documents is information she was meaning to send their way, or information from them.
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