Seamstress Home

[Plot Bot]

The neighbours were well aware that something was wrong, the local garrason was walking the beat more oftern and they seemed to keep and eye on Tynes's home. She had had a few customers visit her during the afternoon some leaving with bundles of new clothing others waving with a smile. The neighbours were looking after each other and they had all commented that it was a shame that Nialanna was not going to be coming over that evening to visit her mother.

Night fell and the street started to go quiet, people had finished eating meals and were just tidying up before relaxing. The neighbours heard a knock and a mans voice as Tynes opened the door, peeking out of the door the woman looked out and saw just in time to see a siholuetted man walk into Tynes's house. The voices sounded a little harsh as she went back indoors, speaking to her husband.

"You know I think Tynes has male company, that will be nice for her being a widow for so long is not right. She needs a man in her life to help out with Nialanna when she gets home."

The man grunts as he settles down into a chair, time passed and a loud noise followed by a quickly stiffled scream came from next door. The man looked up.

"You said a man has come to visit her?"

His eyes were wide as the woman nooded. He moved fast to the door, not bothering with his shoes and left the house promptly. Finding the patrol some distance away he leads them back in a panic, his wife standing at the door. As they get there a man staggers out of the door and looks up, as he sees the patrol he starts to run. One called.

"Lortal, stop or we will shoot you!"

Lortal carried on running but it was no use in no time at all his feet were stuck fast to the ground. Two of the patrol approached with a lantern, revealing blood stained trousers and blood stained hands. He was shaking from head to foot with his trouses held in one hand. Quickly binding his hands together and putting his trouses safely on they arrest him.

A womans scream draws their attention back to the house. The wife comes out ashen face, even in the dark her face seemed pale. The husband and three more patrol guards walk in to find Tynes lying on the floor with her skirt up and blood all around her. The face was blue and distorted in a horrified expression. A bruise was already forming on her neck and wrists. Table and chairs were moved and there was sign of a struggle in the room. A single tear rested on her cheek.

One of the three guards ran to get a healer but it was too late, Tynes was already dead, strangled to death. A second guard went outside and looked at the wife. "Go to the Millima estate and collect Nialanna and Elidren." He turns to the two guards holding Lortal, and walks over to him. "And you sir are under arrest for rape and murder, take him to the jail and make sure that he is kept there." He turns back to look at Tynes, he sighed and knelt down beside her feeling her quickly chilling face, gently he closed her eyes and laid her in a position that made her seem more at rest. After a short incantation he lifts her and moves her over to the bed placing her down gently. Turning to the husband "I am expecting Nialanna and Elidren to be turning up soon. I think it may be a good idea to tidy the other room up and to make her looks as peaceful as possible. It is so sad to see a young girl made orphan in such a way." With this he waits, the healer comes and confirms what had killed her and that she was indeed dead.

"She has died of suffercation, strangled to death. She has also been raiped, do you have a suspect?"

The guard nods in a sad way. They leave the room, the healer going back to bed and the husband waiting for his wife to return as the guards stand and wait for the inevatable to happen.

[arkaus]

*having being alerted to the fact that there is a problem here Fli head straight for the area upon arriving he approaches the nearest guard at full run*

"whats happened here?"

[Plot Bot]

The lead guard, salutes Fli. "Murder and rape, man in custody sir! Waiting for the daughter of the victim and Paige Elidren to turn up. Need identification of the body. Needs to be a relative and the only surviving memeber is young Nialanna." He relaxes his salute and indicates inside. "You can have a look for yourself, she was killed in the kitchen area but sign of struggle. Still have to get vitness reports as of yet. It can wait until morning."

[arkaus]

*fli walks into the house and starts a solid search of the kitchen area*

[Plot Bot]

He finds signs of a struggle throughout the main room, slight blood on one of the counters. Nail marks in the floor where a slight remains of blood shows where Tynes was lying, a small patch near where the head was. The rest of the room looks like she was in the middle of washing up when she was interupted. A small piece of fabric caught on a nail in the floor.

Upon inspection of Tynes, who is lying on her bed looking peaceful with a blanket over her torso, leasons around the throat, a small cut on the back of the head, nail marks on her thighs, blood staining her dress, splinters under her nails and in her fingers. Piece of fabric does not match what she is wearing.

[arkaus]

*Fli sends a guard to see if the cloth matches Lortals clothing then goes to question the neighbours*

[Plot Bot]

The cloth does match Lortals clothing, and one of the neighbours is not in. The wife of the man who is still waiting outside had been sent to the Milima estate. The other neighbours had all heard sounds and thought that it was the guards arresting Lortal for trying to enter Tynes's home. Most of them are shocked that she was dead, one person speaks that they had seen Lortal hanging around earlier that night but that he seemed to dissappear as the guards came around on their patrol.

A neighbour a couple of doors down speaks that he had seen Tynes hitting Lortal after he tried to force her to let him carry her basket in the Market. That he insisted that he was going to become Tynes husband and that he was going to come around for dinner when Nialanna was expected home that evening. The man say's "Lortal was doubled over in pain and still insisted that his step daughter should get to meet her future father before the wedding... or was that before he got hit.... yes that was before he got hit because that is when she hit him. Too right too, he was over the line, she did not want a new husband she had all she wanted."