[color=A0A0A0][h2]Fleuri Jodeau[/h2][/color]

Most of the searching ended up being done by Gerard, due to his complete lack of regard for the fort captain's belongings and Fleuri's hesitation to move them.  They didn't find anything, however, although Fleuri thought the empty drawer might be a bit curious.  It had been left open, but had nothing in it.  Perhaps the captain had simply been doing some reorganizing prior to his death, although it was also possible that something [i]was[/i] here, but someone took it and didn't bother to shut the drawer.

"Does it seem odd that someone would go through the trouble of breaking into the captain's quarters and murdering him in his sleep instead of just letting him succumb to whatever madness gripped the fort?" Fleuri asked Gerard and Abigail.  "One of the drawers of the desk was left ajar and empty, hardly something you'd expect from a disciplined officer.  I think whoever snuck in here was looking for something, and if they were, they probably found it."

Fleuri followed Gerard out the door where the corpse lay, which his fellow knight was currently examining.  Fleuri knelt down and took a look at the wound in the man's chest.  It looked like it was made with something small and narrow, nothing like the weapons that the soldiers were carrying.  True, a maddened soldier wouldn't be above using anything as a weapon, but Fleuri didn't think they'd be lucid enough to kill with a few well-placed blows to the vitals with a small object.

"This doesn't look like the work of a berserk soldier, either," Fleuri observed.  "I'd guess it's the work of whoever broke into the captain's quarters."

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