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[~Thor's Gurl<3~]

Emerald nodded. "I don't think there was a third. It was Tessa." she growled through her tears, not waiting to find out what else had happened. She took off, running over the fields out the roads faster than she ever had before. The wind blew her tears away as soon as they fell, but they still clouded her vision and stumbled more than once. A flashback of Sonja's body flashed through her mind as she tried to get up, and on her hands and knees, she nearly vomited. Why would Tessa do this? Sonja was such a nice lady, and the crew needed her. She shook her head and pushed herself up. She ran fast again, following the cart wheel tracks. She was almost into town when she caught sight of them. "LIAM!" she shouted on the top of her lungs. She hoped he had heard her, she couldn't keep running at this pace for much longer and she didn't want them to be around Tessa for much longer either.

[Wildmagic_warrior]

"I don't think you should jump to conclusions-" protested Melody, unwilling to blame Tessa-Rose for something so horrid. Emerald didn't hear her, of course; she was always so impulsive, dashing off here and there, never staying in one place long enough to think things through properly. The quartermaster sat in the dirt for a while yet, then cleared her throat and stood up carefully. "Jack," she said, hesitating, "I hate to ask this, but... well, what actually killed Sonja? I mean, obviously that's a hell of a head wound, but maybe she wasn't clubbed at all. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she and Tessa-Rose were... having an argument, yes, that's it, and Sonja tripped over something and hit her head on the ground." She paused, trying to see reason in her new theory. It was there, tentatively. "So... I mean, you're a cook. You must know how animals work, at least a little bit. Can you tell what killed her?"

Liam heard a shout from down the road and looked up, surprised. Emerald was running towards him, yelling his name at the top of her voice. He glanced at Gannet, who shrugged and mouthed the word girls. Liam chuckled, then stood up and nonchalantly dusted off his trousers before going out to meet his crewmate. "Emerald," he said, trying to act as though he were glad to see her. In reality, his voice was quiet and dangerous. "What is all this nonsense? With Tessa-Rose, Sonja, and the cap'n injured, who knows what else could happen? Now, tell me, what's going on? Why are you in such a hurry?"

[Keriae]

Jack furrowed his brow as he looked at the dead body of the women he had known so well. Slowly, he moved onto his hands and knees and crawled over to the unmoving form, resing the palm of his hand against the luke-warm face. The sight of Sonja pained him greatly, and he forced his eyes away from her closed ones, instead looking at the wound that was crusted with drying blood. The sight made him feel sick, but he wet his lips and bent lower, inspecting it. Finally, he raised his head to look at Melody. "It was definately a hard blow from the handel of the pistol." He confirmed, swallowing. "I don't know what was shoved into the wound, but it didn't help her."
The cook moved backwards and stood up, his gaze traveling over the body and stopping at the wound on her arm. "That is a deep wound, and she clearly lost a lot of blood." He commented before coming to a conclusion. "I don't think this was Tessa-Rose. It's very possible that someone attacked them. They could have knocked Tessa-Rose unconcious before taking her pistol and knife. Sonja stumbled upon them and was attacked. By the time Tessa-Rose woke up, the attacker was gone."

[Wildmagic_warrior]

"Yeah," said Melody, clenching her fists. She believed Jack, she really did, and [i]his[i] theory was certainly better than anything else that had been said. "I mean, yes, I'm sure that you're right. All we have to do is ask around and see if anyone knows who might have done this." She paused, then added, "Do you think the town will be on our side? I mean, one of our crew was murdered and another badly injured." Now she was just trying to keep from crying again, and talking loud and fast was the only way she knew how. She probably sounded a little bit hysterical, but who wouldn't be? "And- oh, God." She paused, remembering a former crewmember who had left the ship after a jailbreak somewhere in Spain. Tears slipped out of the corners of her eyes and she wiped them away hastily, smearing dirt and blood on her face.

[Keriae]

Jack was about to answer when he saw the tears slip down her face before she wiped them away. Hesitantly, he wrapped his arms around her in an effort to comfort her. "I can't say anything about the town, but I think they might be." He didn't know what was worrying her, so the cook did his best to comfort her with his back to the form that had once been the lively navigator.

[intriguing]

((I'm so sorry guys that I haven't posted for ages. Life's got in the way what with exams and all, but I've read from where I left off and I know what's going on. Ingo is once again on the scene ))

Betty was hectic, she hadn't got the full story out of anyone yet, but she was running around like a mad woman. So many responsibilities, so much worry, so much blood. She glanced from patient to patient, hearing the words Sonja being tossed about here and there. It wasn't good, she could tell that much, but for now she had to draw herself away from emotion and work. She gathered cloth, bandage herbs and all manner of remodies to stop the bloodflow. Why so much blood? She just wished that one day there might be something better, something to know who's blood was whose...

Ingo's already pale face was startling white. She couldn't say she was the first out of the door, she was frozen stuck. Paused as if the world was no longer in motion, yet her thoughts crazed on, theories mounting, impartial evidence and very prejudice emotions boiling inside her. Then the world fell back into movement again. Liam wa salready gone, she couldn't talk to him, the others were outside, she couldn't talk to them, Rodney was goodness knows where. She had to see the body. her thoughts filed through her mind as she paced, as if there were some mental filing cabinet and with every step she took another thing was sorted into place. The downright impossible and the downright mutinous. She jogged outside, the commotion too much to bear. She still couldn't believe it. Sonja had been a like a sister, maybe even like the mother she'd never had, and definitely a friend. Whatever there had been though, was now lost, it was all gone. Ingo knew it, but she didn't let it get to her. That's one thing she couldn't do. She couldn't cry.
She walked over, seeing the body an imminent and painful event that had to occur. She looked, facts and observations trailing through her brain sorting out her accusations. She ahd said nothing. Nothing at all, she just dropped to her knees and held Sonja's cold, dead hand.

[~Thor's Gurl<3~]

Liam heard a shout from down the road and looked up, surprised. Emerald was running towards him, yelling his name at the top of her voice. He glanced at Gannet, who shrugged and mouthed the word girls. Liam chuckled, then stood up and nonchalantly dusted off his trousers before going out to meet his crewmate. "Emerald," he said, trying to act as though he were glad to see her. In reality, his voice was quiet and dangerous. "What is all this nonsense? With Tessa-Rose, Sonja, and the cap'n injured, who knows what else could happen? Now, tell me, what's going on? Why are you in such a hurry?"

Emerald started crying harder when she heard Sonja's name. "Sonja's dead." she said, hiccuping and sniffling. "Where's-" Hiccup. "Tessa?" Sniffle, sob, sob. Sniffle. "You need to-" Hiccup again."Stay away from her. She's dangerous." she said, not caring if Tessa heard or what anybody else thought. She didn't trust Tessa one bit.

[.skycat.]

Ryder was about to comment on the state of Indigo and Tessa, but before he could utter a word there was a shout. He looked up and glanced at Emerald, then Liam with a smirk. After Emerald was done with her hiccup interrupted report, he raised an eyebrow, unconvinced. "Now 'ow could a perfectly strong woman like Sonja be dead?" Ryder asked, still standing casually behind Liam and Gannet. It wasn't that he didn't believe Emerald, but Sonja always seemed perfectly capable of living through an attack... not to mention she was always so... strong willed.

[~Thor's Gurl<3~]

Emerald glared over at Ryder, tears still streaming down her face, but less now that she started to get angry again. "Because Tessa killed her; that's how!" she shouted.

[Wildmagic_warrior]

"Hold your horses," snapped Liam, leaving one of his large hands on Emerald's shoulder. "And don't go jumping to conclusions. For one thing, where is your proof?" He paused, then snapped his eyebrows together in a frown. "We can't go pointing fingers until we know all of the details." Glancing at the people who were there, he said, "Ryder. You take Emerald back to the farm with Gannet; get what you can from Melody, Jack, and Ingo. Rodney- blast it, where is that boy? In any case, he'll stay here with me. Betty, if you need any help, with anything at all, give us a shout. Alright?" He glanced at Emerald and Ryder and said, "Get going. Gannet can take you back in the wagon."

Melody was glad for the hug, but after a few moments she shrugged it off. She took a deep, rattling breath, trying to get hold of herself, but then she saw Ingo coming towards them. She forced herself not to cry, but it was obvious that she had been. She didn't say anything to the first mate as she knelt by the navigator and took her hand. Then, after a few moments of silence, she stepped over and put her hand on the woman's shoulder. "How many?" she asked, as quietly as she could. "You've been with the crew a long time, Ingo. How many have you seen die?"