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"I doubt it. He doesn't have the ability to use Persona, otherwise he wouldn't have tried take Richard.

And zis place would be more trashed if it was those Shadow things, and we'd be cleaning up our own bodies as well."

Le gasp. It seems that we may well have an unknown suspect!

((G'night.))

"I zink she also detected Personas.

Is zat correct?"

It's Marie's pet Shadow!

Its eyes glow gold, and it makes a chirping sound.

"Zat is possibly just Shadows, not Shadow Selves..."

Speaking of which, a quivering comes from the corpses.

((Hang on.....he was alone when he said that. Nobody could have possibly heard him.))

"I doubt Richard has a Persona that could strangle them all without causing forced entry.

And Marie is.....too much like Camille. Too 'mad' to do zat.

Zat leaves us nowhere."

"Maybe.....someone snuck in, like a doppelgänger, disguised him/herself, and persuaded them?

Alith wouldn't, he hasn't got ze ability to compel zhem to do zat like what happened here.

Although he or she could be any one of us.....not me, of course.

Presumably it would be someone ze cats know. Zat rules out me, Orichalum,Sapphira , Andre, and you two.

It can't be ze lake people, Camille, Maria or Alith. They seem to have alibis; Camille left, Maria's been gone, Alith doesn't have zat power, and ze lake people have been gone for days.

Zat leaves Richard et Marie. Or else we have a dead end."

There are no magic residues around. At least, not ones which could be used for strangling. Although there are some Persona traces around, and Shadows as well.

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"Look for Jacke and Ariana. Gaston, possibly, he was nearby."

Gaston just shakes his head and looks at the bodies.

"What...did zis?"