To have been arranged so precisely, the three would have had to perish at nearly the same time and been posed in these positions before rigor mortis set in.
Hand on belt switch, kindjal poised, the Duke skirted the body, slipped down the passage and peered around the corner toward the shield generator room.
So they took the participants and physically posed them, either in expansive postures with their arm across the back of the chair, their feet up on the desk.