Dawn
Alabaster Brack
Crimson Flow Mortuary

Alabaster's low, rumbling laugther filled the dungeon at her suprising answer. "A possibility, certainly. But that would cause death over a period of time." Baster reached beneath the counter and pulled out a small knife. "I kept four organs from the man: his heart, brain, liver, and stomach." Alabaster smiled as he felt the muscle of the heart give away to the knife. "Stomachs don't keep well so I went through its contents to try and determine if he had ingested something poisonous. I didn't find anything other than the remnant of a pathetic last meal." 

At this point, the knife had reached the apex of the heart and Alabaster held it out to her for her to continue up the other side. "We can try and determine death by studying the organs of a healthy body and finding deviations. I suspect this man died of a heart attack." His eyes watched her to see if she would take the knife and continue. "Have you seen a healthy heart before?"
Jewel
Amicia de Blanc
The Crimson Flow Mortuary

Amicia watched his knife glide through the muscle as Alabaster spoke. She didn't even know that it was possible to determine what someone had ate from their stomach, she just knew how to remove and burn it.

When he held out the heart and knife she didn't hesitate to take it and continue.

"Only from the-from the outside. Thisss one is dark-darker," She said, stopping for a moment to tap the darkened apex before continuing with the knife in slow, careful movements,"Why is it-why is it darker."
Dawn
Alabaster Brack
Crimson Flow Mortuary

Alabaster nodded at her observation but chose not to answer. "Where did you say you were from, Amicia? Who taught you?" 

The young woman in front of him, though many may confuse her for a child, intrigued him. He had brushed her off as overly shy and without a backbone during their first meeting, but she had continuously asked questions, which he admired. Her hand was steady with the knife as well.
Jewel
Amicia de Blanc
The Crimson Flow Mortuary

"Gorgonys. I wasss brought up in-up in Temp-Temple Mortuary - one of the small-smaller ones." She replied as the knife met where the initial incision had been made,"All of the-all of the asters took part in-in teaching me."

But he still hadn't answered her. Looking up at him, she lifted the heart to show him the apex, the slightest hint of annoyance in her face as her brows knit together.

"Why is-is-I-is it dark-darker." She probed.
Dawn
Alabaster Brack
Crimson Flow Mortuary

*No wonder her outlook is skewed.* Alabaster sneered inwardly, watching as she finished cutting through the muscle. 

The slightest hint of a smile flashed across his face as she held the heart up to him. "It is abnormal, yes?" He took the heart from her and split the sections, exposing the ventricles and chambers within the heart. "What else do you notice?"
Jewel
Amicia de Blanc
The Crimson Flow Mortuary

Her eyes narrowed at the non answer. Why wouldn't he tell her why it was like that? Or did Alabaster not know either?

But as he held open the heart she peered over it, using her fingers to slightly spread the halved arteries where she had spotted something out of place. There was something yellowish inside and as she went to touch it she recoiled her hand from the texture and rubbed her finger against her apron as if to rid herself of the skin that touched it. 

"That's-that's fat?" She questioned. The colour was similar enough and the texture, as usual, was enough to make her sick."Is that mmmmeant to be-to be there?"