9

At the break of dawn, Delion the great

detective sneaked out of Chief Amber's

house with an intent to return back to

hunter lingo's campsite, & Kilometers

away from the village. Also since no one

panicked and shouted about one of their

family members dying, Delion figures

that there are no new deaths which is

a good thing of course. Because he can

put the first puzzling case to a pause

and figure out who killed old William.

The traces of William's death are far too

scarce, and letting them rest for more

than a day is a bad idea. After all he

can go check what's to be found at the

camp and return here to pick up the first

bigger case. Obviously it is a lot more to

comprehend, but he is the only detective

here... Finally reaching the camp two

hours later, one thing is for sure, he

absolutely had enough of the cold brutal

november weather across these lands

which is even harder to comprehend this

early in the morning. Plus it has been

snowing again, for half an hour actually

after Delion left the village so it is easy

to determine how rugged travelling all

the way here was. But he had to come

here for the sake of succeeding at least

in this case. Tracing footprints obviously

isn't an option since there was ankle

deep snow around here yesterday and

today it's an inch deeper, but he can look

for major traces that can link to this...

different murder, such as poison. Delion

and chief Ambers went up to Jingo's

camp 5 minutes after William fell flat on

the ground, at such short notice chances

are Jingo had slipped somewhere, and

I don't mean on snow. One good thing

about this brutal cold, is that William's

corpse is well preserved. In other terms

it won't smell absolutely horrible. Bodies

deteriorate after death, and as fancy as

that word sounds the result it represents

holler a frozen corpse. The situation has

turned for the worst, thankfully no one's

attacking Delion at this semi-remote

spot but what he has considered as a

minimalistic risk, has come to bite him

on the ***! The body is missing! They

concealed it well enough yesterday but

apparently it didn't meet the required

criteria to prevent the body from being

snatched. "Oh for "s sake!" Delion

cursed, almost out loud. But if there

actually is an animal nearby it would

prove stupid to spook it. After a minute

of Interrogation he figured out that it

wasn't any animal who snatched old

William's Corpse, but a human instead.

How did he know this? Well there are

some key characteristics. For a start, if

there was an animal strong enough to

drag a whole human corpse from this

spot, it would surely have a bite strong

enough to break out blood from the

corpse and force it to drip all over the

place. There is no blood here, not even

a single drop. Secondly, regardless of

the ankle deep snow around here it just

didn't pour enough last night to cover the

traces of a whole "ing human body being

dragged. An animal would obviously

not carry the corpse on its armis, so the

odds of a human carrying this are far

bigger. Third, there are actual human

tracks leading not towards but away

from the village! The traces escaped

being covered by last night's snow and

If there was a load on a human's back

it is most likely for each step to sink

deeper. The tracks look at least a few

hours old, so even if Delion runs his

way after the tracks it won't be enough

to catch whoever took the body. But yet

again if he follows them it might lead

to a better clue, like another village for

example. Delion will follow the tracks,

but it is obvious that there is no rush

to it so first things first he has to walk

all the way above Jack's peek and into

Jingo's camp.

There is nothing here,

this place is clean!" Delion murmured.

complaining about this staggering

situation. One thing he found are bloody

arrows in any other case this would

look very bad, and would raise a

ton of suspicion. But Jingo is a hunter

and considering what blacksmiths

sell, doesn't come in cheap. It does

make sense for non broken arrows to

be recycled after bagging game. This

also can't link to William, because he

had no stab or cut wounds, no blood..

Furthermore he also found some torn für

clothes, these likely belong to Jingo and

got torn by excessive use. Fur clothing

has a span of a year or so before it rips

apart, so this doesn't look like anything

suspicious either. There is also a bit of

mear that has gone bad, but it is still

edible kinda. Hunters commonly take

the best loot back in the village or to

another place where they can sell it, they

won't leave sellable meat at a camp since

any scavenging animal can take it if not

a human. What does this mean exactly?

There is nothing else to analyze, that's

the harsh fact to comprehend. Delion

really hoped to find some poison but

no there is nothing here. He walked for

8 Kilometers today yet he did not find

anything that points out towards the

murderer, to make it worse William's

body is missing so Delion's idea to leave

the body here yesterday proves nothing

but faulty. Where did it lead to? No

corpse, no clue of what happened! This

investigation is close to an end sadly,

Delion himself is losing hope! Never in

his career has he witnessed a case who

is so trackles. He only has two options

now, follow the tracks and go to question:

Jingo later although now the best piece

of information could be following the

tracks, no murderer would ever admit to

what he or she did especially here where

there is no dirt on them. Following

the tracks became troublesome, since

at some parts there were other human

walk prints who've led to the east or to

the west. But he managed to remember

how the specific prints he followed

looked like. That's how he managed to

keep track but an hour later this portion

of the investigation was as well forced

towards a bitter end, as if this weather

wasn't punishing enough. How? It's

because the tracks led towards a river..

and that's where most traces are forced

to end up cold and I'm not saying that

because the river waters are colder. A

River forces the case to an end, because

if a body was dropped here an hour

ago for example, it could require at

least 6 hours to track it by following the

river down. If the corpse didn't sink

underwater that is. But the tracks were

at least a few hours old, so tracking this

body has become impossible. In summer,

he wouldn't mind taking his clothes

off and taking a swim for a deeper

Interrogation. Chances are, the body was

tied with a rock from who ever wanted

to hide it. But at such temperatures it is

impossible to take a swim and return

to Blenar after, the living human body

doesn't have what it takes to withstand

such torture from mother nature. If

Blenar is lucky, the corpse will be found

by some villager since a lot of domains

are close to the river. It would prove

useful to grant old William a proper

funeral, but it wouldn't be of aid to this

case. The only option left now is to head

back and talk to Jingo, even if he has

to put a dagger on the Hunter's neck to

grasp upon the truth.

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