Trying to ignore the reality of what they were doing, Mason and Ilona began shoveling down into the enormous pile of fish in front of them. As they did, the smell only grew. Their hands were quickly coated in a sticky slime dotted with maggots and other insects. They felt mush and bones like a sludge they were trying to burrow into.
"Get in!" Ilona commanded, turning to look at her brothers.
"What about you?" Jamie demanded.
"I don't have the bones tied to me! Go!"
Henry, Nick, and Jamie all did as they were told, climbing into the mound and hurrying to scoop the mush over their legs. Then they laid back on their backs, and Ilona and Mason covered the rest of them, leaving only their faces exposed so they could breathe.
