 The Last of Her Kind
How do you tell if someone's dead? Well, at least in Adrienne's experience (mainly through reading books about it, of course), it was pretty darn obvious. "Well, they'll likely smell absolutely terrible. Either 'cause the flesh is rotting and being eaten by maggots," she said, relishing the grossness of it, "or because when people- er, creatures die they tend to lose control of some organs, namely bowels and bladders and... yeah," she finished lamely. After a moment of fidgeting, she quickly barrelled onwards.
"Also, dead things like... don't breathe, or have heartbeats, or move, or have any brain activity." There was plenty more, like rigor mortis and stuff, but the rest of the class seemed to have that down, so Adrienne smiled brightly and finished there.
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