There were no obvious fatal wounds—no bullet holes, broken bones, or deep cuts—and no signs of major physical trauma caused by a magical spell. During my time with the Star, I’d seen corpses that had been burned by fireballs, punctured clean through by bolts of energy, or crushed to a pulp by what witnesses later said was an invisible wall of force. I didn’t see any indicators of that kind of magic here. This pair had either been flayed alive—or had been killed first with a spell that left no obvious physical traces.