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.'
