After examining the body, Doc stands.
"Knife wounds. Even around the neck. It looks like she was decapitated with a damn butcher's knife... while those little demons danced around her,", he says, pointing to the small footprints in the blood on the floor.
"The blood spill almost certainly indicates she was sitting here while she was under attack, rather than attacked and positioned here afterwards. Horrible..."
He turns to Mathis.
"What was this Bellweather like when she was alive? I mean physically? Barring utter immobility, I can't imagine a person, even an old woman, sitting calmly in place while being stabbed to death." The alienist shudders, trying not to conjecture what may have transpired here, each possibility even more terrible than the one before.
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