The Inspector approached, his tone softening a bit: "There is no need to be afraid. I am a Royal Knight. No one here dares to harm you; you just need to speak out about what you saw."
The female staff member nodded timidly, taking a deep breath to calm herself: "That person wore a hat, pulled down very low to cover half of his face. I remember him because his hands were shaking violently. When registering and paying, he even dropped the store's fountain pen on the floor, splattering ink everywhere." Saying so, the woman reached out one hand, imitating the image she saw at that time.
Her right hand trembled ceaselessly, her fingers curling involuntarily, exactly as the forensic doctor had just said: the victim Thomas Richie suffered from extremely severe hand abrasion syndrome.
