p id="docs-internal-guid-b1da4099-7fff-87c3-62d0-29fde3ffeabe" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran was able to get a bit of sleep that night, but it took a lot of effort to just fall asleep. That journal they and Robin found was still on their mind. What did it mean the royal family was plotting something? Where Alfonse and Sharena really involved?/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Robin suggested to not think too much about it for the time being, but Kiran's paranoia had doubled since they found that journal./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran trudged outside of their room and into the dining hall. Maybe getting food in their system would help them focus better and think more clearly./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"When they got there everyone seemed awkwardly quiet. Alfonse and Sharena were slowly picking at the food. Fjorm greeted Kiran when they took their seat next to Alfonse. It seemed that she didn't really know what put Alfonse and Sharena in this weird mood, but it looked as if she was trying to make up for the awkward silence. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Good morning, Fjorm." Kiran smiled, then turned to Alfonse and Sharena "Good morning, you two." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sharena suddenly looked up from her plate, startled, then gave an awkward smile. "O-oh, good morning, Kiran."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Is everything alright?" Fjorm questioned, "You too seem quite off today."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Alfonse suddenly stood up out of his chair and walked out of the room without saying anything./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Is Alfonse okay?" Kiran asked./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I..." Sharena trailed off, "I don't know, honestly. I probably shouldn't be telling you this but... you see, this is the anniversary of our cousin's death. It's actually the first anniversary. He and Alfonse never got along quite well and his death was very sudden. I guess Alfonse is upset because they had a huge fight the day before he died."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh my," Fjorm commented. "I'm sorry to hear that."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"But Kiran couldn't help but put the fork they were using down. Suddenly no longer hungry. The events of yesterday that they tried and was almost able to forget about swam back. The author of that journal said he was the cousin of Alfonse and Sharena. It was also dated last year, they year this supposed cousin died./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""M-May I ask how this cousin died, Sharena? If it's not too much." Kiran said, their voice quivering./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh, I don't mind you asking, but..." Sharena trailed off. "From what my mother told me, he was beaten with a blunt object. Alfonse was the one who found him. He would only talk to our mother, I couldn't talk to him at all for the next few days. He also avoided our aunt and uncle like the plague. It was scary to see him like that."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't asked." Kiran apologized./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No, it's fine. I really don't mind talking about it, I wasn't too close with him either, but I never got into fights with him like Alfonse did-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sharena was cut off by a high-pitch scream./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran, Fjorm, and Sharena instantly jumped to their feet and ran out the room towards the direction of the scream./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Someone come, quick!" the person yelled, voice cracking on the 'quick'./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""That sounded like Felicia." Fjorm said running behind Kiran./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The scream led them to one of the supply rooms. When the first ran in, they noticed Felicia was sitting, backing away from a corner of the room that was hidden behind some supplies. If Kiran remembered correctly, this was the food storage room./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Felicia, what's wrong?" Sharena cried, running over./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Felicia pointed a shaking finger to the part of the room she was backing away from./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran, Sharena, and Fjorm cautiously walked over to where Felicia was sitting. The sight alone was enough to make Kiran feel light headed. There was a body, from the outfit, it was mostly likely a servant; their head was caved in. It was obvious that they were hit on the head with something./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I-I-I-I just came in to find some tea for Lady Corrin and this servant was lying there, dead!" Felicia cried./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Fjorm helped her up and guided her out the door. While Sharena slowly walked towards the body. She then turned to Kiran./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran, go find Alfonse. He needs to know of this." the princess ordered./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""R-Right..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran ran out, eager to get away from the scene before them. They rushed down the hallway trying to figure out where Alfonse had gone too./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran!" called a voice./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran turned around to see Robin running towards them./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran, what's happened? Felicia's panicking out in the kitchen."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran explained all that they knew to Robin. Robin could only gape, he was at a loss for words./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Have you seen Alfonse anywhere? Sharena asked me to go get him."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Uh, yeah I did. I think he was training when I saw him. I think he cut himself or something though 'cause there was a bit of blood on him so he might be a bit agitated when you find him."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""O-oh, okay. Thank you, Robin." Kiran stuttered before running off again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran's mind was in a haze. The last few days have just been too much. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"They turned the corner and had almost run into Alfonse./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""K-Kiran? What's wrong, you look as if you've seen a ghost..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was at this moment, Kiran was at a loss for words. They looked up to meet Alfonse's eyes and they couldn't help but step back a bit. Alfonse didn't look right, his eyes had a glazed look to them and it sent a shiver down Kiran's spine. They didn't like this look one bit. Despite that, Kiran forced themselves to tell Alfonse what had happened./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""B-body... Servant... D-D-Dead..." was all Kiran could stutter out, unable to look away from the odd look in Alfonse's eyes./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What?! You guys found a dead body?!" Alfonse asked, sounding surprised, but Kiran thought the surprised tone in his voice sounded fake./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran only nodded./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Where?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""F-Food storage room."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alright, I'll go check it out." was all Alfonse said before walking off./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran turned to face him as he walked the food storage room, eyes widening when they caught something. There was a splatter of what looked like blood on his pure white cape. Kiran felt their knees go weak./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"No! No. Robin had mentioned that he was training and it looked like he had hurt himself. That must be where the blood was coming from. But then again... why was Alfonse acting so calm about this? And that look in his eye was something else entirely./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran was so lost in thought, they didn't realized that they had actually followed Alfonse towards the storage room until they accidentally bumped into someone./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran, are you alright?" asked Robin./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran snapped out of their haze and looked around. There was a small crowd of Heroes who were standing outside the storage room./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Y-Yeah... just in shock I think..." Kiran muttered./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You really don't look so good..." Robin said. "How about I take you to your room so you can rest? I'm sure this is something that you've never experienced, I'm sure Prince Alfonse and Princess Sharena will understand."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yeah... maybe..." was all Kiran said./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"As Robin guided Kiran towards their room, Kiran had thought of something./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""They died the same way..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What was that, Kiran?" Robin asked./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alfonse and Sharena's c-c-cousin... I was told that he died today, last year. He was beaten with something... and when I saw that servant... it looked like the same thing happened to them."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Robin suggested to not think too much about it for the time being, but Kiran's paranoia had doubled since they found that journal./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran trudged outside of their room and into the dining hall. Maybe getting food in their system would help them focus better and think more clearly./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"When they got there everyone seemed awkwardly quiet. Alfonse and Sharena were slowly picking at the food. Fjorm greeted Kiran when they took their seat next to Alfonse. It seemed that she didn't really know what put Alfonse and Sharena in this weird mood, but it looked as if she was trying to make up for the awkward silence. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Good morning, Fjorm." Kiran smiled, then turned to Alfonse and Sharena "Good morning, you two." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sharena suddenly looked up from her plate, startled, then gave an awkward smile. "O-oh, good morning, Kiran."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Is everything alright?" Fjorm questioned, "You too seem quite off today."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Alfonse suddenly stood up out of his chair and walked out of the room without saying anything./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Is Alfonse okay?" Kiran asked./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I..." Sharena trailed off, "I don't know, honestly. I probably shouldn't be telling you this but... you see, this is the anniversary of our cousin's death. It's actually the first anniversary. He and Alfonse never got along quite well and his death was very sudden. I guess Alfonse is upset because they had a huge fight the day before he died."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh my," Fjorm commented. "I'm sorry to hear that."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"But Kiran couldn't help but put the fork they were using down. Suddenly no longer hungry. The events of yesterday that they tried and was almost able to forget about swam back. The author of that journal said he was the cousin of Alfonse and Sharena. It was also dated last year, they year this supposed cousin died./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""M-May I ask how this cousin died, Sharena? If it's not too much." Kiran said, their voice quivering./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh, I don't mind you asking, but..." Sharena trailed off. "From what my mother told me, he was beaten with a blunt object. Alfonse was the one who found him. He would only talk to our mother, I couldn't talk to him at all for the next few days. He also avoided our aunt and uncle like the plague. It was scary to see him like that."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't asked." Kiran apologized./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No, it's fine. I really don't mind talking about it, I wasn't too close with him either, but I never got into fights with him like Alfonse did-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sharena was cut off by a high-pitch scream./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran, Fjorm, and Sharena instantly jumped to their feet and ran out the room towards the direction of the scream./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Someone come, quick!" the person yelled, voice cracking on the 'quick'./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""That sounded like Felicia." Fjorm said running behind Kiran./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The scream led them to one of the supply rooms. When the first ran in, they noticed Felicia was sitting, backing away from a corner of the room that was hidden behind some supplies. If Kiran remembered correctly, this was the food storage room./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Felicia, what's wrong?" Sharena cried, running over./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Felicia pointed a shaking finger to the part of the room she was backing away from./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran, Sharena, and Fjorm cautiously walked over to where Felicia was sitting. The sight alone was enough to make Kiran feel light headed. There was a body, from the outfit, it was mostly likely a servant; their head was caved in. It was obvious that they were hit on the head with something./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I-I-I-I just came in to find some tea for Lady Corrin and this servant was lying there, dead!" Felicia cried./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Fjorm helped her up and guided her out the door. While Sharena slowly walked towards the body. She then turned to Kiran./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran, go find Alfonse. He needs to know of this." the princess ordered./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""R-Right..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran ran out, eager to get away from the scene before them. They rushed down the hallway trying to figure out where Alfonse had gone too./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran!" called a voice./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran turned around to see Robin running towards them./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran, what's happened? Felicia's panicking out in the kitchen."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran explained all that they knew to Robin. Robin could only gape, he was at a loss for words./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Have you seen Alfonse anywhere? Sharena asked me to go get him."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Uh, yeah I did. I think he was training when I saw him. I think he cut himself or something though 'cause there was a bit of blood on him so he might be a bit agitated when you find him."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""O-oh, okay. Thank you, Robin." Kiran stuttered before running off again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran's mind was in a haze. The last few days have just been too much. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"They turned the corner and had almost run into Alfonse./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""K-Kiran? What's wrong, you look as if you've seen a ghost..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was at this moment, Kiran was at a loss for words. They looked up to meet Alfonse's eyes and they couldn't help but step back a bit. Alfonse didn't look right, his eyes had a glazed look to them and it sent a shiver down Kiran's spine. They didn't like this look one bit. Despite that, Kiran forced themselves to tell Alfonse what had happened./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""B-body... Servant... D-D-Dead..." was all Kiran could stutter out, unable to look away from the odd look in Alfonse's eyes./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What?! You guys found a dead body?!" Alfonse asked, sounding surprised, but Kiran thought the surprised tone in his voice sounded fake./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran only nodded./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Where?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""F-Food storage room."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alright, I'll go check it out." was all Alfonse said before walking off./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran turned to face him as he walked the food storage room, eyes widening when they caught something. There was a splatter of what looked like blood on his pure white cape. Kiran felt their knees go weak./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"No! No. Robin had mentioned that he was training and it looked like he had hurt himself. That must be where the blood was coming from. But then again... why was Alfonse acting so calm about this? And that look in his eye was something else entirely./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran was so lost in thought, they didn't realized that they had actually followed Alfonse towards the storage room until they accidentally bumped into someone./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Kiran, are you alright?" asked Robin./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Kiran snapped out of their haze and looked around. There was a small crowd of Heroes who were standing outside the storage room./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Y-Yeah... just in shock I think..." Kiran muttered./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You really don't look so good..." Robin said. "How about I take you to your room so you can rest? I'm sure this is something that you've never experienced, I'm sure Prince Alfonse and Princess Sharena will understand."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yeah... maybe..." was all Kiran said./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"As Robin guided Kiran towards their room, Kiran had thought of something./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""They died the same way..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What was that, Kiran?" Robin asked./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alfonse and Sharena's c-c-cousin... I was told that he died today, last year. He was beaten with something... and when I saw that servant... it looked like the same thing happened to them."/span/p