Ethan Masters
10/19/05
10:04 A.M.
You are sitting comfortably in you office in the NYPD headquarters, reading the New York Times. You grab a glass of coffee and sip it quietly. Ah, Colombian bliss.
Ring. Ring.
You look over at your desk phone. It’s line 1. Directly to the chief. That’ll be the third case this month, you think. Ah, well. You pick up the receiver. “Hello?”
“Yeah, sure, Silvia… you do that… oh…what?”
“You called?”
“Oh… yeah… About that…” You hear a muffled grunt and the shuffling of some papers. “We’ve got another murder down by Broadway. Thought you could cover it.”
Yeah, you think, it’ll be the third. As if you needed more.
“It’s got the same marks as the other two,” he says.
This immediately sparks your interest. “What? Another?” You think of the other two.
Two murders had occurred already. The weird thing was, both had the same marks on them. They had bright red handprints on the victim’s chest. Also, both had been priests. You had already called in a guy who specialized in religious Symbology. He’d have to look at this new one, too.
“Yeah… I need you down at the crime scene… the CSIs don’t know what to do.”
“Leave the body there,” you tell the chief. “I want to see it as it was found. Make sure they don’t touch it.”
“Sure, sure.” And he hangs up.
At the CS, you make you way past bundles of confused CSIs and a few paramedics. A rotten stench hangs in the air.
Then, you see it. An older man is laying on the ground, an expression of horror and fear frozen on his face. In the center of his chest, his priest’s clothes are burned away to reveal a bright red handprint seared on. His hands are clutching something around his neck. As you open them carefully, you see it is a crucifix.
OOC: Actions, please?