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[color=skyblue]Location[/color]: Château de La Lune: Graveyard
[color=skyblue]Skills[/color]: N/A
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So Sam was questioning why the message Tony received said he [i]knew[/i] what happened; Tony figured someone would. He also confirmed that the numbers didn't match, and seemed to think that proved him right. In Tony's mind, it was obvious that it proved no such thing - it could be the same person using different numbers to cover their tracks, or even if it was different people it was still much more likely that both were metaphorically playing with their food, not trying to help. Tony opened his mouth to start addressing all of those points, when... [i]thud.[/i]

Looking over at where they were digging, Tony saw what they'd found. An arm which, after clearing a bit more dirt away, proved to be Miguel. Tony did not freak out at the discovery - he had seen enough lifeless bodies to not be driven to panic, and he'd been half expecting this to happen ever since Miguel's absence was pointed out to him - but Tony certainly wasn't glad the prediction he'd made just moments ago was right. Renee's death [i]could[/i] have been an accident, even if Tony had highly doubted that, but this eliminated all doubt. Renee and Miguel had both been murdered. If they aren't careful, everyone still standing here could meet the same fate.

With some effort, Tony managed to avoid glaring at Sam's back as he immediately went to start inspecting the body. [i]It's not like there's a medical professional nearby or anything,[/i] he thought grumpily. In the meantime, Millicent talked about not freaking out, and about how this was clearly murder. Not going out without a fight, is she? Maybe someone here truly understood what needed to be done, then. If they could learn to trust each other.

Tony nodded when Millicent finished. [color=skyblue]"This makes two murders, now. I don't know about all of you, but I won't sit back and let whatever sick game they're playing at continue to unfold. We need to figure out who exactly is involved, in all of this - the blackmail too, not just the killing - and... deal with it. But until we know for sure, we have to be discreet. If they catch on too soon, they will make us regret it."[/color]

When Sam was done looking over Miguel, Tony walked over and crouched down to take a look himself. There was major bruising around his neck, which implied that he was strangled to death. Looking more closely, he could just make out that the bruising wasn't quite evenly distributed; there were lines of more severe bruising, with [i]slightly[/i] less bruising in between. Almost like... he hovered his hand over it to compare, then nodded to himself. It looked liked it was done by hands, not by rope. Looking over the rest of the body, at first he didn't see anything else of note, no visible wounds, although he wasn't going to look under Miguel's clothes for any more bruising there might have been. But just before he finished, he thought of one more thing. He'd never seen it himself - being a surgeon after all, not a coroner - but he'd heard of it. Tony picked up one of Miguel's hands, and looked closely at his nails. They were covered in dirt, obviously, but [i]under[/i] them... he found some dried blood. Miguel had fought for his life.

As Constance spoke, he set the hand down gently and stood up. Part of him wanted to immediately go and comfort her, but the matter at hand was too important to ignore. [color=skyblue]"If I was forced to guess... he would probably be mine. It looks like Miguel was strangled, and as far as I can tell, he was fighting back. It certainly wasn't an old lady that overpowered him. But we can't be certain yet, and he's definitely not the only person involved. He should be suspected, but we can't afford to miss anything important because we were too focused on what [i]seemed[/i] 'obvious', either. Hell, for that matter it could be the guy that took the boat, for all we know. For now, we have to be suspicious of them all."[/color]