Saur smiled and nodded at Starfinger.
"Indeed. It might be good to make sure everybody can take care of themselves in an emergency." He paused for a moment before raising a claw and putting it on the frog's shoulder.
"And don't worry. This...Taldane is different for me as well. Expressions are...difficult." His gaze then drifted up to his companions, taking note that Fleur seemed to already be diving into taking a look around the office like he should be.
"But for now, let's focus on figuring out what happened here...and where Teacher Ot went." With another pat on Starfinger's shoulder, he once more shook off the wounds on his back and got to work.
Saur was not an investigator, and he never believed himself to be the most intelligent around. But if there was one thing he was proud of more than anything else, it was how attuned he was to his surroundings at all times; his powers of observation were as sharply hewn as his arrowheads. It didn't take the most observant person to notice that there had been some kind of struggle in the room. The shattered glass and bloody water were obvious clues to that regard. But from his unique position behind the desk, something caught his eye. A pile of papers that seemed off on their own. Despite everything else having been strewn about haphazardly, these were strangely collected. It could have just ended up that way randomly of course, but still, he found it suspicious....
The Kobold approached the pile and gingerly lifted them off of the wet floor and into his claws. He felt the tip of one of his claws tear a small hole into a wet corner and quickly decided to lay them out on the table in front of him to avoid doing any further damage. Then, he carefully began to sift through the papers. Finally, he found what was so important about them. Pictured was some kind of rune, with many notes scribbled around it, seemingly to analyze what its purpose might be. He frowned as he inspected it and read through it. But...something was off.
This wasn't right.
Whoever had been analyzing the rune had made some strange assumptions or something, because the analysis was off. He wasn't particularly talented with magic, but he could tell that the rune was definitely to produce some kind of nature-oriented conjuration magic. He had no clue. But he could see one thing for certain.
Finally, Fleur spoke up and brought his attention up from the papers he was reading.
"Ah, judging from the broken strap, seems like we can pretty much say for sure our mystery attacker was humanoid at least; unless Teacher Ot was in the habit of wearing masks in the privacy of his office. They were probably trying to conceal their face from Teacher Ot or other potential witnesses when they did it. An excellent find that tells us a lot," Saur commented with a nod.
"And I think I found something too."With that, he turned the sheet of paper he had found over toward the others.
"I think you're all better versed in the ways of magic than I am. Maybe you can figure out exactly what this is. All I can tell is that it's some kind of nature magic, conjuration probably. My current guess is that it could be either druidic or fey in nature. And whoever was trying to figure this out made some errors at the top that led to all kinds of false conclusions. Their notes are basically useless. So unless a teacher in a school of magic isn't very good at understanding magic, it's hard to believe this belongs to Teacher Ot."Once he had turned the paper over toward the others, he turned his attention to the prints that Fleur had pointed out before.
"No matter what though, Fleur is correct. We should get moving and follow the trail before it joins the stone."
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