Flora remained groggy for quite a while before coming to her senses. Elliot got straight to the point:
"Flora, can you talk to corpses?"
He had seen how Flora had allocated her points.
She had invested heavily in that snowflake pattern, [Burial].
Elsa had invested only one point and could already vaguely sense the obsessions the dead had held in life. In theory, it should be even easier for Flora.
"I can." Flora nodded, then added, "To be precise, it isn't talking. I can sense some of a corpse's emotions. The fresher the corpse, the clearer the sensations."
That was not far from Elliot's guess.
"Come over here. There have been several Family Annihilation Cases in Saint Clair's Hearthfire District recently..."
Elliot briefly explained Fango's situation.
He left out Elsa's suicide. After all, in theory, he knew nothing about what had happened on Vanessa's end.
"Murder, then suicide?"
Flora's eyes widened in surprise.
Only then did Elliot remember that the Mourning Poetry Society Flora belonged to seemed to predate even the Empire by quite a long time.
The Flora before him, with her unwashed hair and pajamas with one button fastened wrong, instantly rose in his estimation. Here was a veteran of the Supernatural in the senior realm. Perhaps she knew some secrets?
"That's right. Does anything come to mind? Any religious sects that do things like this, for instance?"
Flora knitted her brows. "It does sound vaguely familiar... Let me look into it."
"Come to the Imperial Capital first and help me investigate the cases here. It's already been two days since the Family Annihilation Case, and everyone here is on edge." "Mm, no problem." Flora agreed without hesitation. "But it'll probably take me a few days to reach the Imperial Capital..." "No need. Just take an airship. I've