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...burned to the ground, but, in a twist that is leaving investigators baffled, not only was no one hurt in the blaze, but the origonal owner of the property, the patriarch of the once-great Almasy family, was found murdered in his room in the apartment which has been his home for the past twelve years. 

Comments given by the police and forensic detectives have confirmed that the body itself was rendered unrecogniseable, no doubt through the forty-eight hours of torture Almasy is suspected of having gone through before his eventual death - details let slip include bones shattered to chalk, castration, and possible sodomization, though the nature of the 'foreign object' has not, as yet, been released to the press...

"It was like walking into Hannibal's workshop," one detective told reporters after having seen the murder scene. "Nearly thirty years on this job, and I've never seen anything like it. We had to identify him by his dental records; and even that was tricky - his jaw was broken into bits with all the rest."

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[ ooc - So...yeah. *sheepish* Squall vanished for two and a half days after the talk with Seifer...And ended up in Balamb. Where he...maybe...lost it? 

Meaning, Yuki, that he never made it back to his dorm. So, I think everyone would be pretty worried...He's arriving back Wednesday afternoon; the above is from the Wednesday morning edition of Balamb's main newspaper. 

Laguna-mun? Do you want to log Squall pulling up on his bike? Either Laguna, in big-brother mode, or Seifer, would maybe meet him? I don't know. Get back to me? ]