<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rhiannon</div><div class="spoiler_body">Rhiannon notices that one of the blood splatters is not blood at all, but pine resin.  Furthermore, there are fine linen fibers detectable on every surface, stained dark.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Sigrun</div><div class="spoiler_body">One thing Sigrun notices immediately and easily is that the identical French doors leading <em>in</em> to the study are intact, with the key still in their lock.  Whoever it was, the Luminary let them in.<br/><br/>Further, there are flakes of ancient flesh around the broken French door.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">If Sigrun decides to touch them</div><div class="spoiler_body">They feel leathery.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">If Sigrun decides to taste them</div><div class="spoiler_body">They taste disgustingly salty.</div></div></div></div></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Hassan</div><div class="spoiler_body">The mention and thoughts of the sun bring Hassan's attention back to the faded expanse of wallpaper. <br/> While that part of the wallpaper faded as a result of overexposure to sunlight, the rest of the house is pristine.  This bleaching must have happened in a matter of moments.</div></div><br/>"As far as staff, just a maid, scheduled for two days ago, and she's already been cleared," Alana said to Emanuel.  She told Hassan, "I'm afraid I don't know as much about supernatural portents."<br/><br/>"I was stopping over just six hours ago," Andre explained to the Scions, "found her like this, and called the authorities."  It was rather obvious that he was mortal, and lacked the capacity to kill a Demigod.<br/><br/>"What we figure," Alana looked back to the Scions, "is that it's another member of her Band, some of the only people we know who can bring such ability to bear.  Fate training at the Supernatural Crimes Unit has demonstrated that Fate loves a mystery, and it was most likely someone she knows, giving a set of suspects."  Her training was coming forth to bear: while she wasn't completely certain of the assertion, she believed it the most likely result.  "Those Band members are Francisco Garcia Melendez, Hikaru Yamazako, Jennifer Walker, and Keiran O’Connor."<br/><br/>"It's not Francisco," Andre insisted for what sounded like the twenty-ninth time to Alana.  "I know him," he smiled a little too forcefully, "inside and out."  A heavy mix of love and lust held in the words.<br/><br/>Rather than get swept up into another argument, Alana trusted the Scions to handle the investigations for themselves.  "Hikaru was on a plane coming back from Japan at the time, and anyone and everyone would tell you that it<em>can't</em>be her.  The two were inseparable,<em>never</em>fought."  Alana seems rather terse on that particular subject.<br/><br/>"With Jennifer," Andre continued, "she's new, so we don't know a great deal about her."<br/><br/>"Jennifer definitely spent a lot of time with Bai, but Bai never said much about her," Alana agreed.  "Which leaves Kieran."<br/><br/>Andre's smile faded.  "Keiran and Bai fought constantly; he outright despised her willingness to compromise."  Andre gently shook his head.  "More than possible he got fed up with her enough to kill her."<br/><br/>Alana didn't disagree, but had little more to add.  "He's definitely worth investigating as well.  We have addresses and phone numbers for each of them," and she used her radio to send out a command to have a list put together for the Scions.  She added to Hassan, "Maybe the other Scions will know more of the omens."<br/><br/>Andre asked, "Will you need a place to assemble and discuss amongst yourselves, a sort of home base to make sure you're all on the same page and discuss the investigation?"