Run: 2026-09-10-01M25DR5QJ39SP90FQBY1ASTS1

Cold rain hammered the old mansion windows as Detective Mara Voss stepped into the candlelit foyer exactly at midnight tonight. A butler with trembling hands led her toward the ancient wooden library where the victim waited silently for her arrival. Lord Edgar Blackwood sprawled across the Persian rug, a silver letter opener buried deep in his bloodied cold still chest. The room smelled of expensive cigars, old books, and something faintly metallic that she recognized immediately as fresh spilled blood. A fierce storm raged outside, thunder shaking the glass while every guest claimed complete ignorance of the entire grisly murder. Detective Voss knelt beside the body, noting the missing signet ring and the victim's strangely calm expression on his face. Outside, distant lightning split the sky as a dark hidden figure silently watched from the garden maze's shadowed far edge. When she turned abruptly, the butler was gone, leaving only dark wet footprints leading toward the conservatory's unlocked old door. Mara slowly drew her weapon, following the old trail as thunder masked the sound of a nearby door clicking shut. The silent conservatory waited, oddly humid and dark, its glass walls streaming with cold rain and something like fresh blood.