Nero studied the darkened stains of dried blood in the corner of the room, and observed the pattern of how the blood had been spilt. One, large, continuous stain on the ground somewhere would have shown that the victim bled out, but there was no such stain.
Instead, there were numerous stains spread around within an approximately 1.5 meters (5 ft) area. What that could mean was… tough to discern. It could be the consequence of some ability or spell that caused some explosion in the victim's body, or they could have been torn apart during a fight… but that would obviously create sounds. For that, they would need to create a sound isolation barrier or zone, but then that would cause aetheric fluctuations, and in a situation where the base security was so heightened, that would be detected before long.
To gather more information, Nero would need to know what time the incident occurred, and whether or not this was the sight of the most recent victim, or an older one.
