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As Karon steadied the gurney with one hand, Mandira withdrew her hands and obediently laid back down. To some degree, she really was well behaved, as Karon did not even need to speak for her to understand.
The second body was unloaded, and Karon lifted the white sheet to see the magician from the night before. Both were dead, which Karon had already known. Mandira had died long ago, and the magician had drowned last night. The question was why the two had ended up as welfare cases for the Immers family.
Only Roja City’s local residents with verified residency, no family, and no next of kin qualified for welfare processing. These two were clearly outsiders.
Mason walked over, rubbing his hands together and blowing warm breath into them. “Poor couple,” he said. “Chose to jump into the river together in the dead of winter.”
“Together?” Karon asked.
“Yes,” Mason replied. “They drowned and washed up on the riverbank outside the city. When they were found, they were tied together with ropes.”
“So it was immediately ruled a lovers’ suicide?” Karon asked. “No other consideration from the police?”
“The police arrived before we did,” Mason replied. “They found a suicide note on them, confirmed it as a double suicide, and called us to process two welfare cases. The bodies were discovered by an elderly merchant who lives nearby. He found them during his morning walk, and probably didn’t want bad luck...
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