Decomposition.

While my cow bones are being cleaned, I thought I would have no more work to do. And I was very, very wrong. Today, after a quite busy afternoon, a friend came with news that there had been a storm out at sea late in the night - that always means death of something. This something happened to be a great ammount of penguins and turtles, which landed on the beach today. By the time we got there, the sea had taken back a good part of them.

We buried the rest, with the exception of two. One penguin was carefully moved into a plastic bag and brought back, then buried in a decomposition box. I don't have the means to work with animals not yet decomposed, so my garden has a wooden box, buried party, and full of food for animals who do the decomposition process. That way, in these occasions, I can still keep the bones of those I collect.

It all had to be done very quickly, since it has been raining a lot and it intensified more by the time I arrived with the body. A proper funeral ritual will have to be held on a later date, but now I should care for the decomposing body and spend time there every day.

The second exception was a turtle, as fresh as the penguin. The turtle was moved and is safely hidden, where my friend and I will get to tomorrow. There's no space for it in the box right now, so Cassia said we should do it the dirty way and clean it on the beach, where I can also hold a small funeral service.

It pains me to see we've lost so many in one night. I wish I could do more, or at least have helped any that could have gotten to the beach alive, but after roughly 15 hours since the storm, all were dead. May Hel receive them well.