[center][h1][color=f26522]Milo Ventri[/color][/h1][/center]

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	Milo was trying to get himself ready for bed at this point, the day had been a pretty normal one, a few customers dropped by the shop to give some requests, all of which he was perfectly happy to take. Milo spent the afternoon into the evening just working on personal projects, trying to get his practice swords back into order as he had been going to the gym to practice with the local longswording group that he had found. How many days had he had where nothing passed and he just seemed to do nothing for the entirety? The weekends events left him craving some excitement, and every time he thought about it, he thought about how Paige always seemed to have something exciting going on, if he didn't enjoy smithing as much, police work would have been cool too.

	Milo laid in bed that night, tank top and gym shorts, the heat in his home not handling the cold outside as well as he would like it to. he had headphones in as he used his phone to listen to music while he tried to fall asleep, however the sharp tone of his notification ringer cut the song he had going, he pulled his phone up to his face only to get blinded by the backlight, once he focused on it, it was a text from Paige, pretty late to be texting him but he was actually happy to see it, they had texted a bit through the week, so it wasn't horribly strange, until he read it, [b][i]Come over.[/i][/b] Milo wasn't dumb, that was a text that meant there was an issue, Milo got out of bed and hopped into his truck, whatever was going on he had a feeling it was bad.

	Milo arrived shortly after the police and the paramedics, the squads were all in front the apartments that Paige was living at. He got into the building and made his way to the floor she stayed on and went to her door only to be met by a police officer, "'Fraid this is an active crime scene, off limits to the public." Milo looked over his shoulder and could see paramedics, 

	[color=f26522]"Look I'm here for Paige, she called me to come here, is she alright?"[/color] Milo asked the officer while he pulled out his phone to try and show the officer the message, however it didn't seem to be really necessary the officers at this point knew that he and Paige were close, so he just waved his hand and just let Milo in. The scene was a mess, blood everywhere, things were broken and glass was all over the floor, a body was being examined on the floor, with a familiar knife laying bloody on the floor. He walked further until he heard some murmuring, he looked over to see Paige crumpled up on the floor with Paramedics looking her over. he went to her side quickly and knelt down next her, he put a hand on her knee and the other to move some of the bloody hair from her face. [color=f26522]"Paige... What happened? Who did this? Jesus..."[/color] the paramedic was going over her wounds as Milo tried to coax words from her, [color=f26522]"Tell me what you need, anything you want."[/color] Milo felt a strange fear in his chest, she looked bad, blood from her head still dripping, she looked like she had been coughing it up as well, that wasn't good, likely a punctured lung. he looked at her with deep concern, after everything that happened, he didn't want it to end with a death.

[@Pilatus]