Rooms anonymous (roomsanon) wrote in rooms, @ 2014-09-16 22:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | !dc comics, *news |
dc comics: news update
[The corpses are discovered in a chamber in the sewers beneath an opulent art gallery. The visitors had been complaining about the smell for two days. Here they are, in an empty cistern, surrounded on all sides by damp green stone walls and the dripping of water, but the corpses are bone dry. Five of them, two women, three men. They are all on their knees, their hands clasped in prayer. They all have their open eyes tipped up to the blank stone face above.
Looking for salvation? Looking at nothing.
Cause of death is multiple organ failure due to crushing. Aside from the bruising, though, their skin is untouched, so the destruction of all their vital parts wasn't caused by a beating. Broken blood vessels bloom under their eyes, but there is no inflammation, no running noses or dried tears. Death in an instant, as someone told them to look to the sky and pray. They are perfect, arranged in a neat circle, no blood on the ground, no mess, no fuss. The bodies, despite the smell, appear as untouched as those of old saints, dug up after their martyring and found perfectly preserved a dozen years later.
Identifications come in on the frog murders. The woman, man, and youth were part of the same family, a unit notorious for their favorite bonding activity of enforcing for the Falcone mob, lethally when required. The over under on mob connections for the five corpses in the cistern is excellent.
The dove is still there, still in chalk, but it's been rudely sketched on each victim's clothes, on their chests. Amid the fierce strokes of the chalk dust are two words, almost illegible. 'THE WELL.']