WEEK 5 INVESTIGATION

[foundationmods]

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This was....what happened every friday.
A new body to discover.

But...why was there a scream in the halls...?🗈

It echoed on and on, with the person screaming apparently never needing to stop for breath...

It was a fitting soundtrack to what they'd see today, wasn't it...?
Like what you would hear in hell itself.

So, in the end...they had to search, to find the body and find the clues that would bring them to the killer themselves in tomorrow's trial.

...What kind of horror will they find today?

What kind of death did one of their number face?

And what sort of horrible, heart-rending truth....will be the end result, at the end of this week...?

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[cryosurgeon]

............

[Erhard drops to his knees, staring, unblinking. He doesn't hear anyone approach. There's nothing in the world except the body and the smell of blood and the sickening hole where something should be in his chest.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ seriously why is this hallway like this ]

Ah...

[ Well. Shit.

... ]

I'm going to investigate, okay? You can do an examination with me now or jump in whenever you're ready to.

[cryosurgeon]

[He doesn't seem to hear her. He's not even blinking.]

[youkaiwatch]

[ Well, she'll take that as a yes and get to work. ]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Oh hey look it's Joey's first time not being able to force herself away from a crime scene and holy shit what happened to Sherlock.]

[Oh. Erhard's there too. Oh no. Joey's old-fashioned, but she's not an idiot. She knows exactly what it means to see Erhard staring at...that...like that.]

Erhard?

[Joey approaches cautiously.]

Can you hear me?

[cryosurgeon]

[He doesn't move, doesn't flinch, doesn't blink. He doesn't even seem to be breathing, it's so shallow and quiet.]

[incrediblystressedout]

Erhard.

[She knows better than the touch the guy, but she will try to carefully make herself visible to him while he's staring at the body.]

[cryosurgeon]

[His pupils are dilated, and even as she moves to stand in his line of sight he seems to be looking right through her. His eyes are watering, but whether they're tears or just because he isn't blinking is impossible to tell.]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey's only half sure of what to do here. She's a would-be vet, not a would-be doctor. But next to Erhard, she's the closest thing to a medical doctor here, and she knows shock when she sees it.]

[Cautiously, she reaches out a hand to put on his shoulder, ready to jump back if he reacts violently.]

[cryosurgeon]

[He doesn't jump or flinch. If anything, the shoulder under her touch is as rigid as stone. He finally blinks once, slowly, but continues to stare at Sherlock's body. Considering how upset he was over Natsuno's death, this is almost eerie.]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey's also extremely sure it's bad from a medical standpoint, but at least he's not actually having a seizure or something. Probably.]

[She leaves, then comes back a minute or two later with a blanket from her room to put over his shoulders.]

[cryosurgeon]

[Once the investigation of Sherlock's body is done, Erhard finally moves. He gets to his feet, Joey's blanket wrapped around his shoulders, and slowly walks over to the corpse. He kneels down again, closing his eyes and leaning forward to touch his forehead to Sherlock's, heedless of the blood on the man's face. He whispers one thing, hollowly:]

Auf Wiedersehen....

[And that's the last thing he'll say until the trial.]