Melda yawned jaw-crackingly and reached for a croissant. "No writing on the walls as of yet, I don't think," she replied. "Maybe someone should look in the bedrooms. They had weird signs on the doors."

She, of course, hadn't seen the ghost last night. "Butler might be a thought," she added to Starbuck. "Or the housekeeper. I'm not especially inclined to think someone's very good at their job when I find a dead body half under my bed."

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"Redrum?" Starbuck asked, unfamiliar with the term. Maybe it had something to do with coming from another galaxy. "What has that got to do with anything?"

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"oooh" PD blinked and looked around the room muttering, "what happened? I must've fainted or something… I can't believe I could've fallen asleep after a sight like that! hmmm, but where did the ghost of Ælfthryth go? ..... what a strange party this has turned out to be!" PD wandered over to where the small group was gathered, she grabbed a bagel off the table on her way. "hey, guys! What's the 411 this morning? How are things going?" she took a bite out of her bagel.

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"Nope," Starbuck finished her bagel. "I'm not from here ... wherever 'here' is." She glanced around for a moment at the high-ceilinged, dusty-raftered dining room and went to refill her coffee cup. On the way back she discovered - Iraqi pita bread? with 'Kosher Parve' scrawled across the bag? Whatever. She grabbed some and some hummus and sat down again.

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Seona wandered into the dining room and headed straight for the coffee pot. After drinking half a steaming mug, she woke up enough to fill her plate at the buffet.

Sitting down at the table with the others, she said, "So, anyone else died yet?"

Taur woke up on the dining room floor, apparently having fainted, for all of the sudden it was a day. She dashed upstairs to her room, cleaned herself up, and hurried back downstairs before she had missed any developments in the murder case.
"Good morning/afternoon/evening, everyone." She said, as sat down again and took a grilled sandwich, and chewed on it while she listened.

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"Well," Starbuck stood and wiped her mouth on her napkin, "I promised a friend that I would go to a theater production with her, so I'm gonna peace out for a bit. I'll be back later - maybe by then Kit will have gotten up. She seems to be sleeping in." She really didn't blame her; Kit had worked hard last night.

With a sudden hum, Starbuck's Viper fighter appeared outside the french windows of the dining room. Making her farewells, she walked through the doors and climbed into the cockpit, then headed off.

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Shadowcat finished her breakfast and leaned back in her chair.
"No one else has died," she said. "Yet," she added. There was very probably a murderer loose in the house; so how much longer would it be before someone else died?

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FF had been musing on Starbuck's comment. Finally she spoke up. "It IS usually the butler."

FF shook her head, Seona's question just now becoming clear in her mind. She had heard it as she was thinking, but it was faint and her mind was elsewhere.

"No," she said softly. "No one else has died yet." She shuddered.

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Elenriel walked into the dining room, she had lain awake for most of the night after seeing the ghost and when she did finally fall asleep it had been a fitful one. She wanted to have this matter resolved as soon as possible and she still wondered at her logic at staying in a place where a murder occurred. Of course there was no proof that the murder occurred in the mansion-the body could have been moved. She shuddered at the thought as she took a free seat. "So no new information yet?" she asked.

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Ali simply remained on the floor inconspicuously, chewing on a bagel and listening to the others The face paint she'd worn the night before wasunsmudged but a bit faded, purple and orange feathers surrounding green eyes filled with sleep.

"I think the butler did it - if there is one," she piped up, yawning in the middle of the word 'butler'. "Is there a butler?"

She set the half-eaten bagel aside and picked the candy corn out of a bowl of cereal nearby, opting for candy for breakfast.

Ælfthryth drifted down the stairs towards the dining room, fully aware that she could have just floated through the floor or ceiling, but she was still used to getting around the normal way.... floating, though. The walls were fun to float through though. She glided right by the front entrance's carpet, not noticing the huge lump that was her dead body.
"So how is everyone this morning?" she sang out upon entering their breakfast area, immediately spreading a chill throughout the room. "It's strange for me, not having to sleep."

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"There is a butler, Aliana. I think his name is Yusef. And a maid." Taur said. At that moment Aelfthryth's ghost came in, sending a shutter down her spine. This was going to be hard to get used to. "Um, good morning?" Taur replied, both thrown off by the fact she was talking to a ghost, and by the fact that it was, in fact, afternoon by now.

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Elenriel shivered slightly as a sudden chill filled the air. "Ælfthryth...Haldir... " she whispered more to herself. "Uh, hello, I'm fine, I guess..." she said softly, not sure exactly what to say. "Ummm, do you remember where you were before you...uh...became a ghost?" she stammered. Prior to this event, she had never talked to a ghost before.

(I have to get off now and get ready for school [Lab] Not sure when I will be able to get back on)

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This is certainly odd, thought Shadowcat. They were speaking to a ghost. That was unusual. Elenriel's question seemed a good one; if they were going to get to the bottom of the case, they would need to ask questions. She rubbed her arms, as the room temperature had just dropped a few degrees. Weird weird weird...

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