βWhen he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.β
βAww. They were checking on him!β I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought βMaybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands theyβre gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, theyβd be like βWell, thatβs very sad but he IS food now.β So what youβd need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh thatβs what the dwarves were doing! Youβve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.β