<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/cc/CatMoore01.jpeg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong> Melody Fairchild-Harrow<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> Sensible boots and warmly practical gear - albeit wholly in black<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> An abandoned freighter (specifically, the on-deck cargo containers)<br/><strong>TIME:</strong> Early morning<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong> Concerned curiosity<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> Francis Whitespear | Kaspian, Kaleigh, Michael<br/><hr/><br/>Having eagerly requested that Kaspian forwarded those pictures of the Cyrillic text, Melody was soon thereafter engaged in peering quizzically at the images she had received, frowning worriedly while spending some time zooming in and squinting.<br/><br/>"My Russian's... well, it's atrocious, if I'm honest.  But I'm pretty sure that the Cyrillic text is someone doing their job.  It's neatly organised, as you can see, and there's definitely talk of things like leaving the Port of Saint Petersburg.  I'd say that what we're seeing there is the ship's log-book being used for its proper purpose.  We should get it looked at by someone at the Institute who's more knowledgeable than me, when we get the chance, in case there're starting to be anomalies in there that might indicate the beginnings of <em>how</em> the ship wound up getting from the Eastern Baltic to the Eastern Pacific inside a week... but from what I can make out, everything was <em>normal</em> when that was written.  Then... then we switch to the English."<br/><br/>Glancing around the container in which she stood, she grimaced.<br/><br/>"All seven cargo units are empty... but they're all, err, <em>decorated</em>.  No signs of violence in them, but someone has put patterns of blood and ash onto all their walls.  The floors haven't been decorated, and are blood-free... and nothing looks like it's script - runic or mundane - of any kind I've ever seen.  It all seems deliberate, but... we can send you a few sample shots.  Taking clear pictures of <em>all</em> of this would take quite a while - some of the, err, 'work' is very small.  But maybe a more detailed forensic examination could lift fingerprints... and we should check what the ash and blood came from."<br/><br/>She snapped some shots as she spoke - both wide-angle and close-up to show the fine detail - to send them to the other two.<br/><br/>"Should we come up and join you on the bridge?  Figuring out the meaning of what's been done in <em>here </em>seems like a big job, and it sounds like you've got clearer leads there, though we could start collecting samples here if that makes more sense."<br/><br/>The query very much included Michael, to whom she looked for guidance.<br/></div>