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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[ashockingbitch]

Normal people might have been driven away by the smell, but Jenny figured it was her duty to check and make sure there wasn't a rotting corpse up here. "What the hell is that smell?" she asked, sucking on a cigarette to fill her lungs with a somewhat less offensive stench.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Your cigarette," Sokka snarked.

[ashockingbitch]

"No, no," Jenny said, "I know the difference between tobacco and the reek of death by now, thanks."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Sokka asked, walking towards her. "Because I thought they were pretty much the sa--" He sniffed the air. "Hey, that DOES smell a lot better than River's dinner. Plus, it makes you look cool."

[ashockingbitch]

"That's kind of the idea," Jenny said. "You just have to watch out for the cancer."