2 Death bed

Edgar's death escaped unnoticed for a whole day, with none of his family members around to notice it as soon as they wake up in the morning, it isn't a surprise.

Because even though the villagers have proven helpful towards him, they can't really invade his privacy. They can't walk in and out of his tent whenever they please.

Not invading his privacy aside, something else can point out towards death apart from people being suspicious when old Edgar doesn't come out of his tent for more than a day.

Stench! Dead bodies smell, badly! So it won't take long for one to filter out the extra bad smell and investigate.

The smell can be unbearable, traumatizing even for those with a sensitive nose, it will feel like the smell got stuck in one's nose even hours to days after the experience.

But since the stench of a dead body isn't so strong on the first day and there isn't any blood to give out a sign or extra odor, his death will remain unnoticed until further signs kick in.

Because light odors have it easy to escape unnoticed here where Indoor plumbing isn't available.

Their shower, is the river. They would be considered clean if they took a swim down the river once or twice a month.

Their toilet is a wide deep-ish hole covered with planks so people don't fall down the dunk hole obviously.

On those planks there usually are triangular holes in the middle, where the business is dropped down. Almost each house has those sort of toilets while some houses share them to cut expenses.

And although this information about the two topics has become tad extensive, it proves the point. Light odors can escape unnoticed here in Blenar.

Which signifies that now Edgar's death will be even more forgotten, at least temporarily. Especially now that another murder has struck upon this little town of 40 houses.

"Help! My father, he is.. help!..." Yelled a girl in her teen years!

Terrified, with her heart pounding in fear and one tear after the other rolling down from her eyes to her cheeks and dropping to the muddy ground.

The town is only so small, everyone heard her cry for help and rushed to the scene, dropping down any other task they were currently doing.

Those people didn't approach to just see some drama, they didn't come to just witness this girl have a mental breakdown as they comment on her fate without lending a hand.

All of them, men and women approached with aims to help, no discrimination.

They aren't here for the Banter, which can be considered the purest form of help by most.

"What happened?"

"Where is your father?"

'Why did you scream?"

"Did someone hurt you?"

"Did someone touch you?!"

"Where does it hurt?"

A crowd of questions surrounded her, and just when she opened her mouth to answer one question, another one popped up.

This crowd wanted to help yes, but they are only giving her more stress, she already has enough.

She already has enough trouble speaking due to this Trauma, it didn't help to have her answers cut short.

"Give her some space." Yelled out a larger woman, standing around 6.4ft tall as she shoveled away the people in front of her who kept asking questions.

Noticing that the crowd is giving the teenage girl a lot of stress, the tall woman yells. "Quiet!"

Putting the crowd to rest in a blink of an eye, apparently they respect her word a lot.

Using the opportunity under her disposition, the tall lady asks in a low comforting tone. "What happened Ellie?"

Ellie's mouth opens but her tongue feels heavy, unable to speak. Just standing there as if paralyzed, leaving everyone still wondering and unable to accept this bad fate.

Half a minute of repetitive questions later, Ellie just pointed towards her house's door, which is a clear gesture leading to the problem.

But it appears that some men have already stormed her house while the rest of the villagers were asking her a heap load of questions and of course aiming to assure that she is okay.

One of those men pointed towards the first room very close to the entrance and butchers. "You might want to see this chief Ambers."

Chief Ambers took a couple of seconds to get enough courage to enter the house, it isn't really settling to be in the same room with a dead person.

Upon stepping in she had to squat down a little bit, because the door is only 5 feet tall.

Once entering, she had to take a left turn to enter the said room. Because all the house has is a 3 foot wide hallway located on the right side of the house.

That hallway allows access to two rooms, which likely one belonged to Ellie and the other belonged to her father's.

The house is too small indeed, there is no living room to be spoken off but it also explains why this house has two cobblestone chimneys.

First the poorest man in town got murdered and now this family of two who don't seem to have great financial options.

Does the murderer prey on the poor people?

Or does the murderer prey on those with the most emotional pain first? It really is hard to tell.

After chief Ambers enters the first room, she notices the Father laying still on his bed. Well that's the normal part, I mean he is dead. But the scene isn't bloody. At all.

No cuts, no bruises, no signs of a midnight fight, absolutely nothing. Not even signs of suicide.

At first sight one would think that he died on his bed, so what exactly happened here?

She walked towards the father, noticing that his skin became abnormally pale which would signify the first sign that he didn't make it, since his blood stopped flowing, body heat dropped tremendously, and he froze stiff after the Fireplace dimmed.

When she got a chance to take a look at his eyes, she notices that they remained wide open. Something uncontrollable when death falls upon a person.

Finding the guts to approach his mouth to listen if he's breathing! She swiftly noticed that he wasn't and quickly pulled her head back.

Not feeling comfortable about listening for too long.

Well, what all these 3 signs tell her, is that he died in his sleep. A rather peaceful way to die considered by most, but who can tell that this was actually, Murder! The kill is so clean and the evidence, none.

Walking out of the house with the crowd of people waiting for her and trying to calm Ellie down. Chief Ambers approaches and tries to break it to Ellie kindly as who knows how much pain she is withstanding at this very moment.

Her tone delicate, chief Ambers cites. "Ellie, sweetie, it looks like your father died in his sleep. I'm so sorry."

The sorrow and pain of which arose in Ellie's heart at that moment was immeasurable. She was slowly accepting the fact that her father didn't make it. But such sudden truth splashed, got her overwhelmed.

Being 17 year old girl, she lost her mother not so long ago and now her father too? Thankfully the men in this town aren't the sort of people that would use this situation to their advantage, to feed lusty needs.

But she will still be alone, without a shoulder to cry on. Her father was kind and supporting, especially after his wife passed away. All they had was each other.

Taking the death of his wife into consideration, a lot of villagers thought of it as the base reason of his death. His heart probably couldn't take it anymore.

Once one thought like that arose in the crowd of people, the rest followed with similar thoughts although their main focus was to provide support for Ellie, trying their best to calm her down.

Her pain reaches to the point of unbaring. Her heart and brain took enough in one morning. Although Murder didn't fall upon her too, she did faint.

"Don't let her head hit the ground!" Yelled a villager as he noticed that Ellie's fainting but he's out of reach and his feet feeling quite a bit frozen.

Stiff due to the fact that Stonemason Daril left this world, never to walk again, never to let out a cheerful greeting to his fellow villagers.

Chief Ambers was the closest to Ellie at that moment and given her blessed long arms, she managed to catch Ellie. Preventing her from hitting the muddy rocky ground.

Getting struck on the head isn't exactly the best thing to experience. You would be blessed if you only received life long scars with no brain damage.

"Get some Water!" Hollered chief Ambers while stroking the poor Ellie's hair.