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"Help? No." Delion answered lightly.

even with a half laugh. But afterwards

describing why he doesn't need help

so Jingo doesn't run off the moment

he gets an opportunity. "But since you

are a friend of William's, he will find

it comforting if you are at his wife's

funeral" Able to puzzle out where

Delion is going with this, Ambers tagged

along by adding "You can come with

us, I know you need rest but as you can

see the situation is sensitive. You can

sleep in my house along with Delion for

the night." "I guess old William could

use some comfort." But to make this

situation a bit more troublesome, Jingo

asks. "Is the funeral today?" Usually

funerals aren't done in a rush, so

according to some basic logic it should

be held tomorrow. Able to lie because

it's constantly required in his line of

work, Delion calmly butchers. They are

holding it now at 4pm, Jenny insisted for

her mother to be buried before dark?

"That's a bit weird." Jingo pointed out.

but is too drowsy to put up a fight about

this. "It is what it is, let's go." It's only

about 2pm right now so this is more and

more believable, especially since Jingo

seems to have a proper track of time for

some reason. Throughout the way back

to the village the conversations were

pale and short. Jingo is far too sleepy to

hold a conversation and he is practically

dragging his feet through the cold

snow. As for Delion and chief Ambers,

they can't really debate decisions or

exchange detailed thoughts about this

new and horrifying investigation since

Jingo is right near them. This hunter is

still not crossed from the suspect list as

a murderer, in fact Delion has gotten

more suspicious. As for the body, it has

been hidden in the bushes. It would take

a lot of effort for a passing by human to

notice the body, unless they can smell it

which could be the case tomorrow. Is it

favorable to leave a dead body like this?

No, most definitely no. But William could

quite possibly have been murdered

and tossed from that high spot, to make

it appear like an accident. And since

there could be a murderer, it would

be a stupid idea to just carry the body

and give Jingo the chance to dissapear

forever. As eye witnesses they have to

clear this case up, because just granting

old William a funeral and letting the

case slip wouldn't be enough to let his

soul rest in peace.... They have led Jingo

to the village and have told him that

due to some last minute preparation

difficulties, it can take another hour or so

until the funeral starts. While in fact the

body is still on her bed, the funeral will

be hosted tomorrow. Delion has been left

with Jingo in Amber's house, watching

him sleep and most necessarily since this

is a quiet room he can think everything

out. He has memorized everything Jingo

has said from the camp and up until

now in the village and his words don't

link. Any normal person would have

skipped these very important details

and figure Jingo as innocent, but Delion

isn't one to be that clumsy. As a start,

Jingo explained that old William left

the camp about half an hour ago That

bit of information is either oddly too

specific or completely random and out

of a sudden, Why is it odd? Well because

Jingo was and still is tired as hell. The

moment he would curl in between a

sleeping bag, he would crash asleep. Him

having a proper track of time would

be nearly impossible in this case, not

to mention he answered at the first call

and most importantly William crashed

the ground roughly 10 minutes before

they found Jingo. Second and most

importantly, William dropped from

a height of 100 "ing feet in complete

silence. Young or old, if you fall from

such height knowing that death will

follow, one would most likely scream in

panic. This opens up another topic which

tags along three options of what could

have happened. The first option is that

William might have actually committed

suicide! As Jenny said the fights between

William and his wife have become too

common, what if he ended it at this age

because of that? This could explain the

silent drop. The second option is that old

William was slaughtered by Jingo for

some kind of unknown reason and to

fight off suspicion he dumped the body

over the cliff to pretend like it was an

accident, afterwards he [Jingol snuck

back into his tent and pretended as if

nothing happened. This could explain

how he had track of time, murdering

someone and falling sound asleep after

is no doubt hard to do. But there is one

thing that almost completely crosses this

option out, William had no wounds on

him. Well not any cut or stab wounds at

least. Since there aren't such wounds,

Delion figures that Jingo could have

used poison to make the old man drop

dead For that, he [Delion] will need to

go interrogate the camp. He understands

that Jingo won't be able to hide any

poison now that he is here in Blenar. But

yet again there might not be any poison

at all, which makes this situation more

complex. The third but most unlikely,

due to old age William just suddenly

died there in the camp. The November

night can be blistering cold, it can take

an old man victim with ease. And to fight

off any unnecessary suspicion, such as

being called and punished as a murderer

without actually murdering someone,

Jingo dropped the body off that height to

make it appear as an accident or suicide.

As you can see, the options are limitless

and it's hard to narrow everything down

without putting his hands in deeply in

each option. That of which can open

up other theories of what might have

happened. It is a headache and you can

only imagine how fast Delion's mind is

going at the moment. He has seen many

cases of murder and suicide before but

this one has very small traces that even

he as a experienced detective could have

over looked. His [Delion's] best option

now is to head back to the camp over

8 kilometers away tomorrow and hope

to find something that can uncover the

mystery of William's death. Well that

and carry William's body back here.

With chief Ambers as an eye witness

yesterday, they can't really accuse Delion

as a murderer.

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