Cheery lesson.

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Ella sat uncomfortably, listening to her classmates answer the question Hadley had posed. Physical characteristics of dead organisms. She'd only seen one dead person in her life and that was her Granddad. The people...the ones who worked on dead bodies had already worked on him so she didn't exactly have an accurate picture of what his lifeless body had looked like in the minutes after his death but she knew enough about science to have a general idea and she was thankful she didn't have to see it. Her thoughts were broken by the mention of maggots and the Head Girl glanced at Nigel, wishing she could be as equally passive about this discussion. Must be nice.

"They pale. Dead people look really pale."

Yup, that was her big contribution to this discussion. Could they be done now?