"I don't suppose it would be possible to follow these footprints, Benedikt?" Emil asks. "No? A shame that the ineffectual bumblers who sadly compose our guard saw fit to stomp all over the crime scene," he remarks cuttingly.

"I think Ulric is more likely on the right track here; I see no reason to believe that anyone sleepwalked," the young man muses. "It must be a symbol meant to send a message. Perhaps, as Ulric says, it is the first letter of a word. Or maybe it simply looks like a 'V' but has another meaning?" He shrugs, chewing on his lower lip as he looks at the statue. "It might be a sign to the other servants of the Whispering Way in the area. An instruction? A direction? Perhaps it is not a 'V' but an arrow pointing the way for the cultists to go?"