John Pettinger at the Khakbethian embassy

This, episode 22 of the serial 'A change of focus', was voted last week's winner of the Friday Prediction challenge by host  Colleen Foley.  
Predictioneers were required to incorporate 'articulate', 'whorl', 'pelt'  into a  sci-fi, horror- fantasy or noir tale of no more than one hundred words

‘Excellency!’
Strangled articulation announced the entry of  the pensioner hired to disguise the whorls of dirty espionage which hung about the Khakbethian embassy.

Skull-knuckled hands clutching the double doors, he hung for a moment then slowly sagged until his badger-pelted head lay on the carpet, arms perforce rotated back- and upwards,  nine inches of knife-handle protruding from his spine.

The ambassador  and his officially-unacknowledged brother turned as one to watch him, their  mutual observation interrupted by the appearance of the man presumed responsible, the sight of whom brought relief to one brother, terror to the other, in roughly equal quantities.

 
Earlier episodes can be accessed by the 'A change of focus' page link above.