Looking up at the ceiling stretching way above her head, Arianne imagined the light plummeting from its spot and felt a surge of terror bubbling in her mind. Shelly was lucky that the light did not kill her right there and then.
The women took a complete round, strolling within the show hall before heading to the surveillance room.
The languid security present had been close to napping, but seeing Arianne shocked him awake. Arianne ignored the question on whether the security was doing his job and went straight to her motive. “The footage for the accident that happened here; do you still have it?”
“Y-Yes, you bet!” the security answered hurriedly. “Um, it was quite the accident, and we worried that Mr. Tremont’s gonna ask for it some day or whatever, so we didn’t dare delete footage of it, as well as a day before and after the accident happened. Would you like to take a look, Madam?”
Arianne nodded. The security guy began to hammer away on his computer and launched the surveillance playback application.
However, she shoved the security aside as soon as the program started and took control of the computer, playing the surveillance footage of the day the accident happened.
Mark had been standing underneath the hazard when it suddenly broke loose of its wire and plummeted. It was a gigantic chandelier, hanging in the center of the runway directly above Mark when it happened.
He had come to the site with the logistics and planning team, which Robin was also a member of, on that day. When the chandelier fell, Robin herself was standing outside and below the runaway while Shelly stood a few distances away from Mark.
Suddenly, Melanie pointed at Shelly and requested, “Pause the video. Enlarge this part of the frame.”
Arianne did as she was told, magnifying Shelly’s face until her facial expression was clear to them. It was a boon to the women that the quality camera was top-notch enough that its video resolution remained relatively unhurt by the magnification. Perhaps the ample lighting in the show venue had helped illuminating the camera’s capturing ability, too.
Melanie looked grim. “Um, Ari? Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that… uh, Mark’s aunt seemed to be staring at the chandelier before it even happened? Did she... Did she know that it was going to fall?” she wondered aloud. “Hey, maybe you guys should take a look and see if my eyes are seeing things that aren’t there. I just think the angle of her head is a mite too high for someone looking straight ahead, though she didn’t really look like she was directly staring at the chandelier, per se…”
Tiffany closed in on the screen and examined it before voicing her support for Melanie’s observation. “Yeap, I see what you saw. You better take a look at this, Ari.”
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