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// 08/27 
// Story: Seeds of Extinction 
// by Jade Ring 
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Hey journal. Sorry I haven't had time to write anything down since the funeral. Timber is still upset, still not talking much. I hate that he was the one to find her out there.  

It was a closed casket. The funeral was, I mean. Small mercy for us, at least. I can't imagine what kind of shape she was in after two days out in the woods. The police have decided that she was taking a walk after sending the last bus of campers off when it happened. The coroner had it down as a brain aneurysm, but her body was... 

Wait. 

I just went and got the copy of the coroner's report. I asked Timber to verify, and it took a minute but he did. Gloriosa's body didn't look like she'd been out in the elements for two days.  

It looked like it had been there for weeks. Her body wasn't so much a body, but a withered husk. 

Like she'd been drained. 

But it's the location that's really got me worried.  

Timber says that he found her not far from our dig site.