5th floor common room, Thursday afternoon

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When she had returned to human shape after her week as an owl, River had found dead voles in various stages of decay littered on the floor. Having collected the intact ones she had placed them in perforated containers hanging from the window, and inspected the process regularly, despite Berthold having issues with the smell. Now most of the soft tissue was gone and she proceeded to the final stage of procuring clean, intact vole skeletons. She put the carcasses in a big pot and boiled them.

The smell of rotten meat filled the common room and the remaining pieces of dried sinews and muscles floated to the surface of the greying water. River watched with great interest.

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