Chapter 299: Monotonous Until It’s Not
Was she meant to be horrified or disgusted by what she had discovered?
Rather than either one, as Irene stared down at the frozen corpse of whoever had gotten stuck in that place, she found herself amazed.
Her eyes traced over the body which was mostly bone by that point. The decay of freezing and then thawing each year for however long it had been there was evident. However, the clothing and weapons on it were surprisingly well preserved.
Momentarily, she wondered if they had been trapped there, but it changed when she noticed that there was an axe through their chest. Her head snapped up and she found a hole in the door. If anything, it looked like the person had purposefully been put there. Their perpetrator pinned them to the door and locked them in.
It was a struggle she would never know the reasoning for, a person who had been lost to time.
Now that she had an answer to the ’how?’, she looked back down and wondered about the ’who.’
It was undoubtedly a man. Red hair braided on his head and a full beard that he was likely once proud of. The Sünstoian genes were strong.
She crouched as she looked at his hair.
There were a couple of braids on his head that went down the side. Strings tied them at the bottom. Lost to time was the color of those strings. They would have meant something at one point: either his family or what they were protecting against.
Had people missed him? Did they mourn this man?
Even his clothing told a tale of a time she never experienced. Even if it was only a few decades before, she could recognize patterns that she had only seen her grandmother and father wear. Everyone else wore clothing appropriate to the kingdom they were in.