(Cue Tristan and Hilda they are both in the forest)

Tristan: Today,we're going to work on your knife throwing. I brought you some throwing knives.

(He hands her some)

Tristan: I'm giving you five to start off with, if you want more, that's on you. Alright. Let's get started. First, relax your body. Second, stand up straight,don't slouch,and third keep your right foot forward and your left foot behind.

Hilda: Like that?

Tristan: Good. Now, keep your thumb on top of the fingers don't let it get to the bottom. Now throw the knife in a moderate angle. And aim for the tree. When I say go, you go. But first I'm going to back away. I'll let you know when you can throw it. Stay in that position.

(He backs away about 10 feet away from Hilda)

Okay, go!

(She throws the knife at the tree but it lands on the floor)

Close, but not quite. Like I said before. It takes practice but don't worry. You'll get the hang of it.

Knight 3: Sire! I think I found something!
It might be a little morbid though. I'm not gonna lie Prince.

(Tristan shrugs, Hilda follows along when they get there they see a man with blood all over his body, his hands, and upper thighs, his eyes open he's dead because he has a bad smell, all the knights plug up their nose. It becomes too much for Hilda to bear so she runs away from the group making a hurling sound she finds a nearby tree and starts making a retching sound, throwing up by the tree branch, after shes done, Tristan follows her putting his hand on her shoulder making sure she didn't over do herself)

Tristan: I'm sorry. If I knew it was gonna be a dead body I would've warned you first.

(He grabs a handkerchief from his front pocket and hands it to her. She accepts and starts to clean her mouth)

Tristan: Keep it.

(She shakes her head)

Hilda: I don't know why that happened.

Tristan: The smell must've been too intense.

Hilda: Wenda was right. I think that was the guy with the blood we sent to Wenda.

Tristan: Yeah. I think it is too.

Hilda: What must we do to the body?

Tristan: take It to town. Maybe Wendell and Wenda can do some experimenting on it. As soon as we get the body clean off the blood and get rid of the smell.

(Cue back to the castle, after some time of cleaning up the body and ridding the smell, Tristan and Hilda wait outside the chambers of physican husband and wife doctore Wendell and Wenda's house, they both come out)

Wendell: Looks like Wenda was right. It really was the blood of a man.

Wenda: He must have been stabbed several times. That's the only speculation I can gather. I tested him for animal attacks, none out of the ordinary.

Tristan: Strange. Because he's dead, wouldn't he have decomposed by now?

Wendell: We cannot prove nor deny that strategy. But what we can say so far is that, after we cleaned him up we had a shocking discovery.

Hilda: What was it?

Wendell: It appears he had a letter on him.

Tristan: What did it read?

Wendell: He was going to quit being in their group.

(Pause everyone goes silent)

Tristan: let's say hypothetically they did kill him, do you think they offed him for that sole purpose? Because he was leaving?

Wenda: They see it as a betrayal. You should never get mixed up with the likes of em. You never know what kind of territory you're stepping into.

Hilda: Another theory that I'm thinking about is, hypothetically speaking, maybe he was against the idea of them kidnapping Bea and maybe he was trying to save her and take her back home, but the men beat him to it.

Wendell: That could also be possible too.

Wenda: Maybe the man saw past their evil nature and had a change of heart.

Tristan: I am so tired of playing headless Chicken. We need to find actual evidence about Bea's kidnapping.

Hilda: But Tristan,think about it, maybe the man IS the key to help finding Bea.

Tristan: How so?

Hilda: Well if they kidnapped her and the man was against the idea of kidnapping Bea and wanted to help her out, maybe the blood trail can lead us exactly where they were headed.

Tristan: Okay. Let's say the story adds up, how do we trace down the trail of blood?

Hilda: Well, I havent thought about that yet. But maybe we can visit someone in town who is experienced in finding a pool of blood and see if they'll trace it back to another person. Hence, finding the men and trying to locate where they're holding Bea at.

Wendell: My opinion is, if they were trying to cover their tracks, they should've done a damn good job trying to cover the blood too.

Tristan: Yes, but murderers just don't bring anti blood spray with them out in the woods. Who would think of an asinine idea like that?
(Rhetorical)

Hilda: All we know for certain is that the man may be the key to help finding Bea.

Tristan: Its a shame he isn't alive otherwise we would be asking him questions about where she is, and maybe get a direct answer and go save her already.

Hilda: As fancy as the idea says, he would've most likely given us a hard time trying to spill out exactly where she is.

Tristan: Did you determine how long he has been dead for?

Wendell: Several days counting.

Tristan: Hilda when did you find the blood before the body?

Hilda: Somewhere around that time.

Wenda: Whatever happened to that man must have been tragic.

Wendell: No doubt.

Tristan: We must keep going. We should go back to the forest maybe find some more we could gather.

Hilda: Let's see what more they may as well be hiding.