Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20150928195402/@comment-26130256-20151009011558

Azulius scanned the wreckage with his eyes, looking for anything out of the ordinary. For division of skill sets, he probably should have been there helping with the interrogation, but Estellia was clearly distraught and he had better things to do than bother her. No one on the new team had explained anything to him about what had happened. His knowledge of explosives and murdering was nowhere near what he wished it was, but he should have been able to see anything really noteworthy.

First thing that bugged him was the shreds of stories that he had overheard. Some people had said that Laleia and her mother died in a fire, but others had said the explosion killed them. For being so close to the "explosion", their bones were remarkably intact; the kind of shockwave that destroyed the storefront should have fractured all of their bones in multiple places. Second, high explosives tended to cause lots of impact damage, but next to no burning, unlike what was shown here.

Third, something Azulius had learned from his friends who worked for the family, was that when one burned a body, the muscles contracted and the body almost entered a fetal position, forming what cops called "the boxer's pose". From the photographs that the police had shown Azzie, both bodies were found lying straight.

And then there was the source of the explosion, which appeared to come from the center of the room. Based on the scorch marks, there was a good old-fashioned big pile of plastic explosives, but no sign of an electronic detonator. Dust bullets from a distance, perhaps.

As the magician shifted his weight, he felt something under his shoe. He moved to pick it up, and found a small, singed USB drive. Rather impressive that the device had survived being so close to the blast, but maybe it had something useful inside. Turning towards the Eliminators (or Eliminatrices, Azzie wasn't sure about the plural form there), he "whispered" in their ears using his Semblance..

"Say, can I borrow any of your CATSAIs?  I found a USB, and it might have something useful in it."