Blood and Snow|Mount Humontis

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The sun had barely begun to rise that morning, and the fine dust of snow on the ground that had fallen the night before had not yet begun to melt. However, there was already enough light to reveal the body on the ground laying with a pool of frozen blood beneath them. The cause of death was not revealed by the pattern of blood on the body, rather the victim's clothes had been changed after death and after the surface of the wound had been frozen to prevent further bleeding onto the clothing. Though why the murderer would go through all that trouble simply to return the body to the place the victim had fallen was unclear.

Whoever committed the murder must have lingered a long time there, arranging the body into a pose that was both elegant and provocative, as well as changing the female victim's clothes to something better suited to a harem than to the snow.

The cause of death was simply the laceration of the veins of the neck which was covered by tying a choker that resembled nothing more than a dog collar which had a leash attached over the wounds. However, there are other, smaller cuts on the body, and the victim's fingertips, and the tips of their toes appear to have been dipped in a dark blue fluid, likely an ink of some sort.

This is all together not something that was often seen at the bottom of Mount Humontis.