Inessa sat in her office, wracking her mind over how to locate and find the murderer before he could strike again. She paced around back and fourth next to the chalkboard, with a series of lines and names drawn to and from each other on one end and important evidence on the other.
There was little evidence. Nothing that could help her find the murderer. What she knew was that he coated his arrow with a special Nero-toxin from a plant called Nightbell, found deep in the lost city of Amdapor of the south shroud. Extracted from a plant that was remarkable for it's beauty and extreme rarity. Once plucked from the root of the plant, the root's wither and die within moments and it could only self-replenish by being left alone to grow.
That and the subject was most likely a Hyur from the descriptions that she was getting. The eye witnesses said that he was a man, or didn't have any feminine features, or noticeable ones anyways, and that he was moderately tall but about the average height of a youth at any rate. They also said he outran the guard's and fled via the city rooftop's so he is young, skilled at acrobatics and resourceful enough to evade the Brass Blades and sink away without being noticed or caught.
So the evidence only boiled down to what he was. Possibly young, average height, skilled and very resourceful.
On the other hand, there was the murdered woman. Emily Claffey, daughter to a moderately rich merchant of Antony Claffey. There was nothing that sugests she was murdered for a legitimate reason, such as knowing the wrong things or crossing the wrong people, and nobody hated her either. Many a young man admired her for her beauty and wanted her for their own. However, the father was overbearing and overprotective and only let her out and around the town when he was there to accompany her, along with a few bodyguards so she was obviously well protected, despite being killed in the presence of her father.
Word has it that Antony has not left the temple and continues to morn his daughter.
It would make sense that her father would have enemy's, but after a little digging, I have found they did not hold such a huge grudge as to kill his daughter so that possibility is out the window.
Inessa eventually stops pacing and leans backwards on the edge of her desk. She bites the bottom of her lip, trying to decide what to do next.
There was little evidence. Nothing that could help her find the murderer. What she knew was that he coated his arrow with a special Nero-toxin from a plant called Nightbell, found deep in the lost city of Amdapor of the south shroud. Extracted from a plant that was remarkable for it's beauty and extreme rarity. Once plucked from the root of the plant, the root's wither and die within moments and it could only self-replenish by being left alone to grow.
That and the subject was most likely a Hyur from the descriptions that she was getting. The eye witnesses said that he was a man, or didn't have any feminine features, or noticeable ones anyways, and that he was moderately tall but about the average height of a youth at any rate. They also said he outran the guard's and fled via the city rooftop's so he is young, skilled at acrobatics and resourceful enough to evade the Brass Blades and sink away without being noticed or caught.
So the evidence only boiled down to what he was. Possibly young, average height, skilled and very resourceful.
On the other hand, there was the murdered woman. Emily Claffey, daughter to a moderately rich merchant of Antony Claffey. There was nothing that sugests she was murdered for a legitimate reason, such as knowing the wrong things or crossing the wrong people, and nobody hated her either. Many a young man admired her for her beauty and wanted her for their own. However, the father was overbearing and overprotective and only let her out and around the town when he was there to accompany her, along with a few bodyguards so she was obviously well protected, despite being killed in the presence of her father.
Word has it that Antony has not left the temple and continues to morn his daughter.
It would make sense that her father would have enemy's, but after a little digging, I have found they did not hold such a huge grudge as to kill his daughter so that possibility is out the window.
Inessa eventually stops pacing and leans backwards on the edge of her desk. She bites the bottom of her lip, trying to decide what to do next.
