FIFTH INVESTIGATION

[whimsicalism]

It's a week until Nursery Rhyme's deadline. The castle is beginning to change slightly now that Alice is gone and it's not for the better. You can't put your finger on it, though.

No, it's time to see if anyone decided to kill once more. That'd be silly, right?

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[whimsicalism]

[Cut evenly like a pre-measured length. It's probably not super long from the free end and there might be something it was tied to. He can do the math to see what it could fit around but there's nothing that he could see that sticks out as it being obviously what it was tied around.]

[octopups]

[Okay... Amdi's gonna look around a little wider now. He probably has no hope of moving the tree trunk off of Seven, but he's investigating it from every angle.

Is there any blood on it beyond what could be expected from it falling on someone? Is there a nearby stump that the tree was clearly felled from, or is it just, like, a huge log??]

[whimsicalism]

[Well, there's some on it around where Seven is. Probably from his leg and arm wounds.

But that's the strange thing. It's a full tree, not just a log. There's no stump, either. It fell over, roots and all. Obviously not all the roots are out of the ground but this tree wasn't chopped down.]

[octopups]

[Okay, that gets Amdi's attention. He may be a castle boi, but he's got enough intuition about friction and surface area and such to figure out that pulling up a tree is VERY difficult.

Definitely gonna look real close now for any indication that something was attached to this tree. Was that rope long enough to get around it?]

[whimsicalism]

[Amdi probably is the only person in the castle that can look at the rope and realize that it is long enough to wrap around the tree easily.

There also seems to be something strange with the place the tree once was, too. The dirt is looser than it should be. Amdi might be a castle boi but he probably can realize that trees probably don't like loose dirt. The fallen tree's roots, too, don't look like they have a lot of dirt clinging to them, either.]