Two tigers on the window sill, one empty, the second untouched; Ross wondered whether this was significant, it was one of those cases where you looked for clues anywhere you could find them. The kitchen he stood in was stripped bare of all free standing furniture as were the majority of the other rooms; they'd seen that as soon as the door had been put through : the staircase rammed full of chairs, tables, chests of drawers, anything substantial that could be used as a barricade was there.
It had taken them fifteen minutes to work their way upstairs, dismantling and passing back furniture as they did, only to be greeted with more impossible structures upstairs blocking any route into or out of the small bedroom. The phone call hadn't been specific but it had been enough to warrant an investigation. There was something in the vagueness that was more unsettling, Ross and Manoj had got there first but neither understood what they were dealing with.
The first body had been found under the a bed, Manoj spotted her foot straight away, the second was only discovered as they tried to lift the wardrobe.
