took one stride into the room and saw enough.

Kara was lying half on and half off the bed.

He was quite dead and the blood-stained patch above his heart told its own story.
T.X.stood looking down at him, saw the frozen horror on the dead man's face, then drew his eyes away and slowly surveyed the room.

There in the middle of the carpet he found his clue, a bent and twisted little candle such as you find on children's Christmas trees..