The deceased was Bitos.
The young man who had just cleverly tried to recruit Jason to his own camp was found hanged in the stairwell between the third and second floors.
Bitos' eyes bulged, his tongue sticking out grotesquely long. One of his leather shoes had fallen onto the staircase, and a hemp rope wrapped around his neck was tied to a wooden railing near the stairwell on the third floor, knotted in a very secure double slipknot.
With sufficient height, Bitos dangled mid-air, his head nearly touching the stairs leading up to the fourth floor.
Servants and attendants kept the gathering relatives from getting too close.
Several guards protected the crime scene.
When Jason arrived, this was the scene that greeted him.
"Hanged to death?"
Jason looked at Bitos' body, refraining from intervening hastily and instead waited quietly for Gerard's arrival.
