((sorry I'm being so slow))<br/><br/>"I don't know how someone could do such a thing," The doctor said quietly to Kosuke. "It's inhuman."<br/><br/>Kosuke cringed at the mention of one of his least favorite words, though he assured himself it wasn't directed at him. Still, though he didn't voice it, he disagreed with the doctor. Things like this happened so often, that he was beginning to think it was a part of human nature, just as healing was. Most things had both a light and a dark side and people could go in any direction.<br/><br/>"Something tells me more than one person was involved here," the young man voiced.<br/><br/>"Oh?" the doctor said. He was interrupted when a guard approached him.<br/><br/>"Perhaps you should take the boy away," the guard suggested. "He shouldn't have to see such things. And this is no place for children."<br/><br/>"No one should see these things," the doctor replied. "This boy happens to be a master healer." He turned away from the slightly offended guard and back to the traveler. "So you think more than one person did it?"<br/><br/>"Well," Kosuke said, wording things carefully, "One person very well might have committed the actual acts of torture and murder, that much is hard to tell. But seldom is anything of this magnitude executed by a single person. And this was obviously very carefully organized."<br/><br/>The doctor thought for a moment, then he had to agree. "Well," the doctor said regretfully, "I am only a doctor. I can't help in a crime scene. I'm sorry, but I should be going back to the hospital." And so the doctor took his leave.<br/><br/>Kosuke turned to the guard beside him. "What's your name?" he asked.<br/><br/>The guard came to attention, "Corporal Angus Crowley, sir," he said, his training took over and he forgot he was addressing a child.<br/><br/>"Well Mr. Crowley," Kosuke said, giving him a slight smile, "the next step is to find whoever did this to Lord Farwulf. Who's in charge here?"<br/><br/>"Well," the guard faltered, "Lord Farwulf was in charge of the town, but Ranger Jorman is in charge of the guard forces."<br/><br/>"Where is he now?"<br/><br/>The guard faltered again. "We don't know. It's not like him to be missing at a time like this."<br/><br/>Kosuke thought for a minute. "Send someone to his house. Maybe he slept in?"<br/><br/>The guard looked dubious, but he turned and shouted out the door. "Send Corporal Paul out to Ranger Jorman's house! If he's there, bring him here!"<br/><br/>Thumping feet could be heard as Corporal Paul ran off to Ranger Jorman's house. Kosuke sat against a wall, prepping himself for an expectedly long wait.