Mission:
I had heard the stories Glikara and Bacheru coming to the isle. They always had shady looks in their eyes, and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't trust them. Bacheru had gotten into a brawl with me at the tavern Fatrat over a peach brandy and tried to twist my neck, so I didn't think that he was a very calm and collected beast. Glikara seemed to be a nice-enough ferretmaid, and she kept trying to win my trust. But before she had sworn to serve Ublaz she tried to steal my money pouch, so she didn't seem too trustworthy. And then after a few days of being Ublaz's servants they became prime suspects in the case of the thefts and murders all over Sampetra. I felt it was my duty to take up this case after what both beasts had done to me in the past. I grabbed my supplies and walked out into the bustling Sampetran streets towards the palace. I inspected the bodies of the dead trident rats, taking notice of their severely twisted necks. Since it would take a fairly large beast to spin a trident rat's head completely around twice, I charted all of the big beasts with criminal records and picked out the to neck twisters who had recently been arrested: Bacheru the ferret and Margron the fox. I went down to the dungeons and scheduled individual meetings with both beasts for the following day, and then requested a dozen trident rats from Bloodspray to use as restrainers. I had the trident rats sleep in the debriefing room I had picked out for Bacheru and Margron. I myself stayed awake and went over to the scenes of the series of thefts on the isle. There were many beasts who could have been stealing valuable items from Ublaz and the high-ranking officials in the imperial navy, so I decided that I would worry more about the thefts later and return to the murder cases. I went on board the Shadowspawn and grabbed my sheathed scimitar from the treasure chest I keep it in. I shrugged into the sash the scabbard is attached to and headed back towards the debriefing room. I stayed awake for a good three hours, then fell asleep on the floor next to a few of the snoring trident rats. When I awoke, it was early morning. I woke the trident rats and fetched the two prisoners in question. The rats brought in Margron first and threw his struggling body to the floor in front of me. I kicked him over and started asking him questions about the murders and thefts. He said that he had nothing to do with them, but I didn't think he was telling the truth. I looked deeply into his eyes and he tried to avert his gaze. For the few moments that I looked into his eyes I saw no sign of lying or treachery, so I led him gruffly back to the prison and threw him as hard as I could into his cell. I had the rats bring Bacheru into the debriefing room. They held him at bay with their tridents while I kicked and slapped him around the room, asking him questions about the murders and if he had any connections with them. I looked into his eyes as well and knew he was hiding something. I knew that what he was hiding from me had something to do with the murders, but I didn't know if he was the killer involved in them or not. As I motioned to the trident rats to take Bacheru back to his cell, I noticed the shadow of a moving beast behind me. It raised a knife, so I spun around quickly, grabbed the knife arm of the assailant and twisted it behind the beast's back. The beast turned out to be Glikara. I twisted her arm harder, snarled and clamped a paw over her mouth to keep her from screaming. I brought my mouth close to her ear and asked her if she was involved with the thefts. She had tears streaming down her face and paused for a moment, then shook her head. I knew she was lying, so I twisted her arm harder and harder until her shoulder snapped out of its socket. Glikara screamed in agony and kept yelling, "It was me!" I figured that since Glikara turned out to be the original thief that Bacheru had to be the original murderer. I stamped my footpaw down on Glikara's dislocated arm, then dragged her to her mate's cell and threw her into it beside him. That was when I boarded the Shadowspawn and wrote my report for the emperor.