5th floor Common room, Sunday afternoon

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While she no longer considered the dead voles a good meal, River still found them interesting. The smell was not appealing however, and it did seem to upset Berthold as well. Remembering that a good way to keep the skeletons intact while getting rid of any soft tissue was to place the carcasses in containers with pierced lids, hang them outside and let smaller organisms to finish the eating and then boil the remains. She hadn't done that since she was a child - and learnt all the parts of the skeleton a lost faster than Simon had - so it seemed like a good idea.

She placed three dead and semi-devoured voles on the kitchen worktop and began to rummage through the cupboard for suitable containers.

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