{Sixth Case} It comes with the territory

[passes_out]

[Ichabod found a candle that he could use in case they needed the extra light in their search through the apartment building that he and Elizabeth were staying in. He also found two thin pieces of metal and decided that lockpicking wasn't a crime if the residents were not there to protest. He learned this skill as an investigator when landlords

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[In person]

[the_tudour_rose]

[She does as he asks, taking the candle from him]

What're you going to do?

[In person]

[passes_out]

Sometimes in order to find the truth, one must perform certain acts of an underhanded nature in order to find it for the greater good. I intend to pick the locks of this apartment to see if this one mirrors the last we were in. If this is true, then we could be facing something that is not natural.

[And a nuclear leak isn't natural but they don't exactly know that just yet.]

[In person]

[the_tudour_rose]

[Picking the locks of the apartments hardly bothered her - the residents were no longer here, and she had already been through the boxes of photo's the apartment they'd been sharing]

I can understand that much..but what do you mean? Something unnatural?

[In person]

[passes_out]

[Once he managed to successfully pick the lock he slowly peeks in to take a look.]

Ah!

[He moved through the apartment and saw that some was in disarray as if a person ran out in a hurry and knocked down a few items in the process.]

Something caused the residents to leave in a hurry, as it seems. Look here.

[He kneels down in front of the knocked down vase with the long dead flowers still inside that have now turned to ashen dust but the impression was still there and stained the rug from the decay.]

Whatever happened here, the residents were frightened enough to leave their belongings behind. This only proves that they didn't die here hence the plant material stain on the rug. If they had, we would have encountered something by now, yes?