Pal looks briefly surprised as Natsuno hands him the scalpel. "Thank you," he says, bemused but certainly not complaining.

As the Ninth pair hangs back, each looking wary in their own way, Palamedes and Camilla approach Abigail's body and take a place at either side of the table. They move with efficency and, funnily enough, politeness as they first cut away the dead woman's shirt and clean her torso of dust and blood. Camilla takes a notebook and a pencil out of her pocket and writes as she begins to speak.

"Autopsy of Lady Abigail Pent, conducted by Master Warden Palamedes Sextus and Warden's Hand Camilla Hect. Cause of death: hypothesized to be a fall of approximately fifty feet. Potential foreign object lodged beneath skin of right abdomen." She offers Pal a nod, and he nods in return before sinking the scalpel into the skin.

Since Abigail is dead, it isn't very bloody, but it isn't pretty, either. Pal cuts an incision just big enough that he is able to slip two fingers and his thumb inside. Almost immediately, he goes still.

"Holy shit." A beat. "Cam, don't write that down."

Obviously, she writes down, Preliminary reaction: Master Warden says, 'Holy shit.'